THE MACDERMOTS OF BALLYCLORAN. New Edition

London: Chapman & Hall, 1861. First one-volume edition of author's first novel. 364 pp. [iv]. 8vo. Marbled boards with green half leather, gilt titles to banded spine, GTE, owner's attractive contemporary engraved bookplate on front pastedown. Spine is evenly browned (green morocco has evenly age-toned to brown), very light wear at tips of corners and extremities of spine, else a very good copy, with the text quite fresh and clean. First one-volume edition of author's first novel. 364 pp. [iv]. 8vo. The novel is set in Ireland, before the famine. According to The Victorian Web: "Trollope set himself to discover the real reasons for Irish discontent. In the autumn of 1843 he began work on his first novel 'The Macdermots of Ballycloran' (published in 1847). This book and 'The Kellys and O'Kellys' (1848) were of a political cast... He was in Belfast for a year from the autumn of 1853, then in Donnybrook, near Dublin...". An elusive title in this 1861 one-volume edition [OCLC worldwide lists only ten holdings: Yale, Cornell, Duke, Newberry, Illinois, Jacksonville, Kansas, Louisiana State, Oxford, Victoria and Albert]

From the collection of Gustavia A. Senff, the wife of wealthy New York industrialist and art collector Charles Senff, and bearing her bookplate. Sadleir, Trollope 1 (note); Tinker 2165