The Vicar of Bullhampton
Bradbury & Evans, 1869.
First edition in the original monthly parts. Eleven issues each in pale blue wrappers lettered and decorated in black and red, with all adverts as called for by Sadleir. Twenty-three steel engraved plates and a number of illustrations in the text by H. Woods. A very good set indeed, bright and well preserved with minor repairs to some of the spine ends and the wrappers for the final issue reused from another issue with manuscript emendation to the date. Internally fresh with a paper repair to the corner of the final advert leaf of part 11. A very well preserved set.
One of the rarest Trollope novels in parts, thought by Sadleir to be second only to the virtually unprocurable Ralph the Heir. Sadleir ascribes their scarcity to the circumstances surrounding publication,
"The part-issue was made with bad grace and, into the bargain, 1869-70 was really too late in English publishing history for a successful experiment in monthly numbers... Accordingly, I surmise that no very large edition of The Vicar was produced in parts, and that of that edition only a secytion was sold. The balance of sheets were turned into book-issues... Consequently parts are rare; bookissues are not." - Sadleir (Trollope)
Sadleir 33
Stock ID: 46831
£5,000.00
