Trollope, Mrs. Frances

Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Gilbert and Rivington for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832, 8vo (200 x 123mm.), 2 volumes,  first edition, 24 plates, 9 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of volume 2, contemporary boards, modern cloth folding box by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph, owner's signature on front fixed endpaper, some spotting and browning, spines faded, spine labels rubbed, joints repaired [Sadleir 3218]; The Vicar of Wrexhill. London: Richard Bentley, 1837, 8vo (200 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, 9 plates, original boards,  modern cloth folding box by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph, browning, without the publisher's catalogue described in Sadleir, some dampstaining in volume 2, fixed endpapers slightly worn, rebacked with original spines laid down, spine labels with some small tears [Sadleir 3246; Wolff 6835]

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First editions of Mrs Trollope's entertaining, and controversial, account of the United States and one of her most popular novels, a satire of evangelicalism.