TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Barsetshire Novels. The Shakespeare Head Edition. (14 VOLUMES - LIMITED EDITION WITH A MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT - 1929)

AUTHOR: TROLLOPE, Anthony. 

TITLE: The Barsetshire Novels. The Shakespeare Head Edition.

PUBLISHER: Stratford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1929.

DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION WITH A MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT. 14 vols., 9-5/16" x 6-5/8", limited to 525 numbered sets this being #40, with a manuscript fragment in Trollope's hand tipped into volume one, hand-colored photographic frontispieces (apparently gelatin silver prints) by Charles Olcott, and photogravures in the text probably by the same, bound in 3/4 brown morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt, others uncut as issued, bound by The Riverside Press.

CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, internally clean and bright, no previous ownership[ marking or inscriptions, A VERY GOOD SET.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The tipped in text in this set is amusing, insofar as Trollope wrote to Tauchnitz in 1882, the year of his death, "Alas! I find that I have contributed 79 volumes to the collection! That I ... should have wasted so many years in what is regarded as a frivolous employment! The number strikes me with awe. But still I live in hope that I shall make up the 80th before I die."