The Last Chronicle of Barset

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1867. First Edition. First edition, mixed first and second issue, with variant (a) of plates facing p. 297 and p. 370 but second issue of plate facing p. 120. Octavo (23 cm). In original blue publisher's cloth, decorated in gilt on spine and front boards; plain endpapers; I: [4], 384 pp., II: [4], 384 pp; 64 illustrations, including 16 inserted plates and 16 in-text wood engravings in each volume. Internally clean and complete apart from the absence of the final ad leaf (which Sadleir writes is 'irregular in its appearance'), but both volumes rubbed, cloth somewhat stained, hinges in vol. I cracking but holding, corners reinforced on both volumes and vol. II neatly rebacked: a Good or better copy.

Bookplate of W[illiam] D[alziel] MacKenzie of Fawley Court, the nephew of civil engineer and railway builder William MacKenzie, in both volumes.

This conclusion to Trollope's Barsetshire series, illustrated by George H. Thomas, was originally issued in parts, with the first book issue bound up from copies in wrappers. Sadleir writes that the first and second issues in bound form can be distinguished only by the presence of stab holes; this copy shows stab holes in gatherings D and E of vol. I but not elsewhere. It has the points of first edition, including "The right of Translation is reserved" on title page versos, perfect 'D' on p.157, vol. I, and "Crawley" on p.298, vol. II. SADLEIR (Trollope) 26.