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    By Anthony Trollope; Michael Sdleir [ed.]
    London   Constable & Company
    9.5" by 6.5" xix [7], 3-181 [1]pp
    An excellent example of the first edition of Anthony Trollope's posthumously published play about a broken engagement and the Republicans in Bruges in the 1790s.
    By Anthony Trollope; Michael Sdleir [ed.]

    1923 The Noble Jilt, A Comedy

    London   Constable & Company
    9.5" by 6.5" xix [7], 3-181 [1]pp
    An excellent example of the first edition of Anthony Trollope's posthumously published play about a broken engagement and the Republicans in Bruges in the 1790s.
    £175.00
    : 1kgs / : 977F31
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    Description

    First Edition, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition of this work, of which only five-hundred copies were produced.

    Written in 1850 but not published until 1923, this is a dramatic play by Anthony Trollope, which was never staged. 

    Trollope described it as 'a comedy, partly in blank verse, and partly in prose', and explained that 'the plot I afterward used in a novel called Can You Forgive Her?'.

    Edited by Michael Sadleir.

    Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Minor bump to back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

    Near Fine

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