Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a

Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Introduced by Kate Flint and Edited by Andrew Swarbrick with a Preface by Norman St. John-Stevas. Illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Book is clean and solid, bound in tan half cloth with bright and bold gilt titles, black boards, corners bumped. Page edges and pages clean and white, free from any markings. The black and gray jacket is clean, unmarked, upper front edge of spine scuffed. The first of the six famous Palliser novels which, as a group, provide the most extensive and contradictory expose of British life during the 19th century. Trollope binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy. The values and aspirations of the governing stratum of Victorian society are ruthlessly examined and none remain unscathed. But it is above all on the predicament of women that Trollope focuses. 449 pages. 7.5 x 4.75 inches. Oxford University Press, Oxford New York Toronto, 1991.