Duke's Children - Anthony Trollope - Folio Society - Limited Edition

First published in 1880, this concluding Palliser novel opens after the death of Lady Glencora. Plantagenet Palliser, now Duke of Omnium, must manage three grown children whose choices offend his sense of rank and duty. Lord Silverbridge sits in the Commons, runs into debt, and courts an American guest; Gerald is sent down from university; Lady Mary loves a commoner the Duke will not accept. Parliamentary life, the hunting field, and London society form the backdrop as the widower learns how little command he has over love and money. The book is a domestic political novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Folio Society
• Edition year: 2015
• Volumes: 2
• Edition: Limited edition (Goatskin Leather + Solander Box)

Condition

Like New

Very minor bump to corner of solander box

Edition Details

Anthony Trollope, the Duke’s children. Type: Miller. Printed by Memminger MedienCentrum and bound by Real Lachenmaier. Dark green silk marker in each volume. The two volumes are as follows:

[1] Anthony Trollope, the Duke’s children, the complete text, reconstructed and edited by Steven Amarnick, assisted by Robert F. Wiseman with Susan Lowell Humphreys, introduced by Joanna Trollope. 241 × 166 × 56 mm. Pp. [i–vi]
vii–xiv, [1–2] 3–702 [703–706]. Half bound in green Indian goatskin leather blocked in gold with green cloth boards. Top edge gilding; marbled endleaves by Jemma Lewis. Leaf preceding the title-page reads in part ‘limited to 1980 numbered copies, and 20 lettered copies hors de commerce’. A printed line counter is loosely
inserted to aid reading the commentary volume alongside. This is the first time the novel has been published in the form Trollope intended, using the original manuscript now held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Members were also offered, at just over twice the price, the set specially bound in full green Indian goatskin leather with edges marbled by Jemma Lewis. These copies came in a green cloth two-volume clamshell box, lined on two sides with dark red paper. 
[2] Commentary to the first complete edition of the Duke’s children, by Anthony Trollope, contributors: Steven Amarnick, Robert F. Wiseman, Susan Lowell Humphreys, Michael G. Williamson. 240 × 161 × 18 mm. Pp. [i–vi], 1–150
[151–154]: [1] plate (facing p. [iii]). Full green canvas blocked in gold; printed endleaves reproduce the opening and closing pages from Trollope’s original manuscript. A photograph of Trollope by Julia Margaret Cameron is used for the frontispiece.