1871
SIR HARRY HOTSPUR | OF | HUMBLETHWAITE. | By | Anthony Trollope, | Author of | “Framley Parsonage,” etc. | London: | Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, | 13, Great Marlborough Street. | 1871. | The right of Translation is reserved.
Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. vii, 323.
Begun in November 1868 on the conclusion of The Vicar of Bullhampton, and written on the same plan as Nina Balatka and Linda Tressel, this story was sold to Macmillan’s Magazine for £750, in which it appeared serially without any marked success. It was then sold by the proprietors to Messrs. Hurst & Blackett, who proposed bringing it out in two volume form. Trollope, however, had his own ideas as to the proper length of a volume, and persuaded them to print it in one.
A new edition was published by Macmillan & Co., London and New York, in the same year.
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: