TROLLOPE, Anthony.
Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.
2 volumes in 1, octavo (218 x 140 mm), viii 320, viii 320 pp. 20th-century crushed dark blue half morocco by Morrell of London (their ink-stamp to front free endpaper), spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 40 wood-engraved plates by John Everett Millais. With the half-title to each volume. Spine slightly faded and with a small mark to foot, variable spotting to plates, first half-title spotted, first title-page with a few spots and marks, a couple of nicks to foot of plate facing p. 17 in volume 1, a few minor blemishes elsewhere.
First edition. Largely an analysis of the legal profession in Victorian London, Orley Farm was also Trollope's most extensive collaboration with the leaing pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. Trollope himself wrote that 'he had never known a set of illustrations "as carefully true … to the conception of the writer of the book illustrated"' (ODNB).