2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; folding engraved map (short tear to fold). Original publisher’s blind-stamped purple cloth gilt (spines sunned, a few minor stains, some minor rubbing, corners bumped). Provenance: Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, K.P. (1799-1868), member of the House of Commons (armorial Lord Farnham bookplate). 

 

FIRST EDITION, written by Trollope after a visit to North America from August 1861 to April 1862, presenting the novelist’s view of Canada and the United States during the Civil War. “I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the intestine troubles of the United States Government had commenced…I should not purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit” (Introduction, p.1). Sadleir 46.