1869

PHINEAS FINN, | THE IRISH MEMBER. | By | Anthony Trollope. | With Twenty Illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. | In Two Volumes. | London: | Virtue & Co., 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. | 1869. | [All rights reserved.]

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 320; Vol. II., pp. vi, 328.

The total sum received for this book was £3200. Completed in May 1867, it appeared in the following October in the new St. Paul’s Magazine, founded by James Virtue, and edited by Trollope for three and a half years at a salary of £1000 a year. He attended the gallery of the House of Commons for two months in order to describe correctly the ways and doings of a Parliamentary member. It ran till May 1869. See also note to Can You Forgive Her? above.