1870
THE COMMENTARIES | OF | CÆSAR | By | Anthony Trollope | William Blackwood and Sons | Edinburgh and London | MDCCCLXX |
Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. vi, 182.
John Blackwood having started a series of Ancient Classics for English Readers under the editorship of the Rev. William Lucas Collins, he invited Trollope to write the fourth book of the new venture. Trollope chose his subject and finished the book in three months, giving it as a present to his friend the publisher. It was outside his usual line of work and was coldly received.