1871
RALPH THE HEIR. By Anthony Trollope, author of Framley Parsonage, Sir Harry Hotspur etc., etc. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13 Great Marlborough Street. 1871. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜).
Vol I. pp. (iv) + 342. Advertisement of Sir Harry Hotspur occupies p. (ii) facing title.
Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 338.
Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 347 + (1).
Publishers' advertisements, 16 pp., printed on text paper and paged, bound in at end. Brown cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Blue-black end-papers.
This story originally appeared in parts, which were issued as supplements to “St. Paul's Magazine.” The instalments were paged continuously, but separately from the rest of the magazine.
Parts I. to XI. were enclosed in fawn paper wrappers printed in black and red and dated January, 1870, to November, 1870. Parts XII. to XVIII. were not wrappered at all, but merely stitched in at the end of the numbers of the magazine with their own pagination. The series contained eleven full-page line-engraved illustrations by F. A. Fraser, the last of which appeared in Part XI.
Apart from that printed on the back wrappers of Parts I. to XI., no advertisement material was included with the part issue. Title-page and contents (4 pp.) for the one-volume edition were supplied with the eighteenth and last instalment.
Although the real first book edition of the novel (published in April, 1870) was in three volumes cr. 8vo. as described above, the type and illustrations of the “St. Paul's” issue were used in a one-volume demy 8vo (5⅝ × 7⅞) edition (pp. iv + 434—no half-title or list of illustrations) issued by Strahan and Co. in 1871, after the story's serial completion. This one-volume edition is bound in green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind, and has dark yellow or terra-cotta end-papers.