TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Prime Minister.
London: Chapman & Hall , 1876.
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First Edition in Book Form of Anthony Trollope's The Prime Minister, the Penultimate Palliser Novel
First edition in book form of the penultimate Palliser novel, Anthony Trollope’s first sustained attempt to portray an ideal statesman. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter leather over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling and 5 raised bands to the spine, fore and bottom edges speckled red. In very good condition.
The Prime Minister, first published in 1876, is the fifth of Anthony Trollope’s six Palliser novels, his celebrated sequence chronicling the political and social world of Victorian England. It follows Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, who reluctantly becomes Prime Minister at the head of a fragile coalition government, his high-minded integrity tested by the compromises of power, while a parallel plot traces the disastrous marriage of Emily Wharton to the plausible adventurer Ferdinand Lopez. Drawing on Trollope’s lifelong fascination with politics, it was his first extended study of a statesman. The Palliser novels are widely regarded, together with the Barsetshire series, as the finest achievement of one of the most prolific and admired of Victorian novelists.
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