TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82). Travelling Sketches, London, 1866, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, modern slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. With 12 other works in 19 volumes. (20)

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82).  Travelling Sketches ... [Reprinted from the "Pall Mall" Gazette.]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. 8vo (190 x 128mm). 24-pages of publisher's advertisements, dated February 1, 1866, at the end. Original red cloth, the upper cover lettered in gilt, bevelled edges (corners lightly bumped, some very light staining), modern slipcase. Provenance: W. H. Smith & Son (old blindstamp on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Sadleir Trollope 23. RARE in good condition. With 12 other works in 19 volumes including the same author's Lord Palmerston (London, W. Asbister [printer], Limited, 1882, 8vo, original russet decorated cloth, inner hinges split, modern slipcase, FIRST EDITION, first issue, prior to the title page being re-dated 1883, Sadleir Trollope 63: "Very uncommon, as would be expected in an unsuccessful series ["English Political Leaders"] launched by an unsuccessful printer", RARE) and The Last Chronicle of Barset (London, Smith Elder and Co., 1867, 2 volumes bound in one, 8vo, 2 wood-engraved frontispieces, 29 plates (only, of 30, lacks one plate ("No Sale After All?") in vol. II) and illustrations by George H. Thomas, contemporary red half morocco gilt, rebacked, spine heavily rubbed, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of the final novel in "The Chronicles of Barsetshire" series, Sadleir Trollope 26); together with Lord Byron's The Works ... With a Life and Illustrative Notes, by William Anderson (Edinburgh, A. Fullarton, [c.1850], 2 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates, very attractively bound in full red crushed morocco gilt), Walter Besant's Westminster ... A New Edition (London, 1902, 8vo, etched frontispiece of Westminster Abbey by Francis S. Walker, illustrations, attractively bound in full brown calf gilt by Bumpus), Wilfred Campbell's Canada (London, A. & C. Black, 1907, 4to, coloured plates by T. Mower Martin, attractively bound in original elaborately decorated cloth gilt, A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION), Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (London, 1937, 4to, original buckram, FIRST EDITION) and Noel Coward's The Collected Plays (London, 1961-62, 6 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jackets). Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. (20)