1857
BARCHESTER TOWERS. | By | Anthony Trollope, | Author of the “Warden.” | In Three Volumes. | London: | Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. | 1857. | [The right of translation is reserved.]
Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 305; Vol. II., p. 299; Vol. III., pp. iv, 321.
Written chiefly in railway trains while investigating the rural postal system of England, Barchester Towers was the second of the series dealing with the bishops, deans, and archdeacon of Barchester. It was published by Longman, after a refusal on the author’s part to curtail the work, on the half-profit system, with the payment of £100 in advance from the half-profits. Writing in 1876, Trollope records a small yearly income from this and the preceding book, The Warden, making together at that date a total of £727, 11s. 3d.