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3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, some mild spotting as usual; tastefully bound in contemporary blue half roan, marbled boards ruled in gilt, backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and third compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, joints very lightly rubbed, a most attractive copy. MAURICE BARING'S COPY WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON BLANK PRELIMINARY OF FIRST VOLUME, AND BOOKPLATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES. The set also carries the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Andrew Noble of Ardmore and Ardardan on front paste-downs. The Trollope Society records that the author's sixth novel was written 'mainly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office entailed a good deal of travelling'. The story is drawn from his memories of his work as a clerk at the GPO in St Martin-le-Grand, and Richard Mullen has called it the most autobiographical of Trollope's novels. The novel was not reprinted in its original three-volume form. A UNIQUE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A SCARCE WORK. NCBEL III, 882; Sadleir 6; Wolff 6796.