The Barnabys in America; or, Adventures of the Widow Wedded.

TROLLOPE, Frances.

$650.00

Item Number: 132860

London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1843.

First edition of the third installment in Frances Trollope’s greatest work, The Widow Barnaby Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, tissue-guarded frontispieces and 6 plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Bookplates and blindstamps of Bowdoin College.

Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope, was an English novelist and writer who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) is her best known, yet the Widow Barnaby trilogy remains her greatest work.