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Title: Orley Farm Author: Trollope, Anthony Place: London Publisher: Chapman and Hall Date: [1861-62] Description: 20 parts. Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved plates after J.E. Millais. 8¾x5½, original tan printed wrappers, custom drop-back box. First Edition. A nice set of Orley Farm in the original parts; laid in is the original invoice from John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd., for this set and two others, dated 1940. The advertisements conform to the listings by Sadlier except as follows: Part V with slip at front for W.H. Smith's Standard Works not noted by Sadlier; Part VI with yellow slip at front loose, with wear to 1 edge, and only 4 pp. of ads at front (not 8) numbered 1-2, 7-8, and with the last 2 ad pages at rear printed on pink, not green paper, and the sample of cambric frilling is gone; Part VII with 4-page slip at front for W.H. Smith's Subscription Library, dated Aug. 24, 1861, not noted by Sadlier, and at rear the slip advertising "The Queen" is on yellow paper, not the blue or pink options given by Sadlier; Part VIII with 4-page slip at front for W.H. Smith's Subscription Library, dated September, 1861, not noted by Sadlier; Part XIX lacking the 8 pp. of ads at front and the 4 pp. of ads at rear. Sadlier, Trollope 13. Lot Amendments Condition: Box soiled and worn; some minor darkening to the wrappers, 1 with circular stain on front wrapper, a few with wrappers soiled and repaired, very good or better condition, lacking only a few of the ads, and with variants and additions not noted by Sadlier, much nicer than normally found. Item number: 212579