Anthony Trollope — Orley Farm

London, Chapman and Hall, 1862. Leather. A splendid Riviere-bound first edition of Orley Farm, bound from the original parts, illustrated throughout by John Everett Millais. First published in shilling parts, this novel is a realist depiction of a lawsuit regarding Orley Farm. The real farm later became a school, renamed Orley Farm School for the novel with the permission of the author.Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist, with the Chronicles of Barsetshire being his best known works, as well as 'The Warden' and 'The Way We Live Now&apos. Illustrated by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), an English painter and illustrator remembered as being one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was also the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools at the age of eleven.This has been bound from the original parts, with a wrap pasted to the verso of the front endpaper of volume I.As stated on page forty of Michael Sadleir's 'Trollope a Bibliography', Volume II is the first issue, as the plates facing pages three-hundred and five and three-hundred and fourteen are both titled 'Farewell!', whereas in the second and later issues, the plate facing page three-hundred and five is corrected the title to 'Sir&apos. Volume I is the second issue, as the plate 'And then they all marched' is here facing page seventy-four, rather than eighty-seven as it does in the first issue.Smartly bound by Riviere and Son. In a half morocco binding. Externally lovely, with just some slight rubbing to the raised bands of the spine. Ownership bookplates to the front pastedowns and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just the odd spot. Near Fine . Ill.: J. E. Millais. Near Fine .