1859
THE | WEST INDIES | AND THE | SPANISH MAIN. | By Anthony Trollope, | Author of “Barchester Towers,” “Doctor Thorne,” | “The Bertrams,” etc. | London: | Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. | 1859. | [The right of translation is reserved.]
8vo. In One Volume: pp. iv, 395. With coloured map.
When Trollope was asked to go to the West Indies to reconstruct the whole of its postal system, he proposed this book to Chapman and Hall, asking £250 for the single volume. The contract was made without difficulty, and he returned with the completed work. His view of the relative position of white men and black was upheld by three articles in the Times, which made the fortune of the book. Trollope regarded it as the best he had ever written.