8vo. iv, 434pp. With 18 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities heavily rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing.

The first octavo edition of Anthony Trollope's (1815-1882) novel following the eponymous protagonist, a spendthrift youth who runs into debt. Initially published as a supplement to St. Paul's Magazine in monthly numbers from January 1870 to July 1871. In April 1871, it then was published in three volumes by Hurst and Blackett.