1871
RALPH THE HEIR. | By | Anthony Trollope, | Author of | “Framley Parsonage,” “Sir Harry Hotspur,” | &c. &c. | In Three Volumes. | London: | Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, | 13, Great Marlborough Street. | 1871. | The right of Translation is reserved. |
Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 342; Vol. II., pp. 338; Vol. III., pp. 347.
This ran serially through the St. Paul’s Magazine. Trollope thought it one of the worst novels he had ever written, but the plot of it was afterwards used by Charles Reade for his play, Shilly-Shally.
The total sum received for this book was £2500, and it was re-issued in the same year by another firm, as follows:
RALPH THE HEIR | By Anthony Trollope | With Illustrations by F. A. Fraser | (device of an anchor with motto “Anchora Spei”) | Strahan & Co., Publishers | 56, Ludgate Hill, London | 1871. |
8vo. In One Volume: pp. iv, 434.