first edition
1874
by Trollope, Anthony
1874. [in the two-in-one binding] With Twenty-Four Illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt (paginated for two separate volumes).
First Edition of this novel that picks up where several previous ones left off. It is primarily a continuation of PHINEAS FINN, with Phineas returning to London after seven years of exile in Ireland and the death of his wife. But the Palliser family also figures in the plot, as it does in FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, DOCTOR THORNE and several other Trollope novels; Lizzie Eustace (with her new husband) also makes an appearance, fresh from her adventures in THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS. PHINEAS REDUX first appeared serially in The Graphic, 26 weekly instalments (July 1873 - January 1874), each with an illustration. The book edition, using 24 of the illustrations, was published in two blue-cloth volumes in December 1873 (though dated 1874). In 1874 the publisher Routledge took over publication of this book, and not only issued C&H's unsold copies and sheets, two-volumes-in-one with separate pagination, but also printed up some additional copies that have continuous pagination. This copy is bound up two-volumes-in-one (separately paginated), with one Chapman and Hall single-volume title page and in a Chapman and Hall binding; if this was issued by Routledge, there is nothing so identifying that. This was not a "remainder" binding (cheap, plain bindings in which publishers would sometimes put unsold sets of sheets); rather it was an alternative binding offered to the public, especially at railway stalls since one volume was more convenient for railway reading. This copy is externally bright and near-fine (a couple of small nicks in the foot of the spine); remarkably, there is only minor cracking of this hefty volume's original endpapers. March 18th 1891 signature on the half-title. This two-volumes-in-one C&H binding is quite uncommon. Sadleir 41 (plus Addenda). Housed in an open-back cloth case. (Inventory #: 15615)
First Edition of this novel that picks up where several previous ones left off. It is primarily a continuation of PHINEAS FINN, with Phineas returning to London after seven years of exile in Ireland and the death of his wife. But the Palliser family also figures in the plot, as it does in FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, DOCTOR THORNE and several other Trollope novels; Lizzie Eustace (with her new husband) also makes an appearance, fresh from her adventures in THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS. PHINEAS REDUX first appeared serially in The Graphic, 26 weekly instalments (July 1873 - January 1874), each with an illustration. The book edition, using 24 of the illustrations, was published in two blue-cloth volumes in December 1873 (though dated 1874). In 1874 the publisher Routledge took over publication of this book, and not only issued C&H's unsold copies and sheets, two-volumes-in-one with separate pagination, but also printed up some additional copies that have continuous pagination. This copy is bound up two-volumes-in-one (separately paginated), with one Chapman and Hall single-volume title page and in a Chapman and Hall binding; if this was issued by Routledge, there is nothing so identifying that. This was not a "remainder" binding (cheap, plain bindings in which publishers would sometimes put unsold sets of sheets); rather it was an alternative binding offered to the public, especially at railway stalls since one volume was more convenient for railway reading. This copy is externally bright and near-fine (a couple of small nicks in the foot of the spine); remarkably, there is only minor cracking of this hefty volume's original endpapers. March 18th 1891 signature on the half-title. This two-volumes-in-one C&H binding is quite uncommon. Sadleir 41 (plus Addenda). Housed in an open-back cloth case. (Inventory #: 15615)
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