The Vicar of Bullhampton.

TROLLOPE, Anthony.

$450.00

Item Number: 112316

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, 1870.

First edition in book form of Anthony Trollope’s controversial novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over pebbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled and marbled endpapers, with thirty-five illustrations including tissue-guarded frontispiece by H. Woods (although 30 are stated). In very good condition.

Best known for his Chronicles of Barsetshire, Victorian era English novelist Anthony Trollope was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of novels addressing current political, social, and gender issues. Writers such as William Thackeray, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins admired and befriended Trollope, praising his understanding of the quotidian world of institutions, official life, and daily business. Initially published serially, The Vicar of Bullhampton contains three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman, abetted by a Methodist minister; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray.