[TROLLOPE, FRANCES]. The Blue Belles of England. Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1842.
Collection of Ancient & Modern Authors, vol. CCCLXXIV. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (22 x 13 x 2.5 cm.); pp. vi, 354. English text. Bound in handsome contemporary half morocco gilt; marbled paper-covered boards; red speckled page edges. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Covers well-preserved with some light rubbing to the extremities. Interior with some light toning. Bound without the half-title page. Scarce.
Notes: Frances Milton Trollope, mother of Anthony Trollope, was a novelist and travel writer, perhaps best known as the author of the travel book Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832). She also wrote social novels: one against slavery is said to have influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe, and she also wrote the first industrial novel, and two anti-Catholic novels, which used a Protestant position to examine self-making. The Blue Belles of England is a relatively scarce work, first published in Britain by Saunders and Otley, 1842, in three volumes. This continental edition by Baudry does not appear on Copac. See Sadleir XIXC 3216; Wolff 6807 for the 3 vol. first edition of 1842.
