Anthony Trollope; Michael Sdleir [ed.] — The Noble Jilt, a Comedy
London, Constable & Company, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first edition of Anthony Trollope's posthumously published play about a broken engagement and the Republicans in Bruges in the 1790s. The first edition of this work, of which only five-hundred copies were produced.Written in 1850 but not published until 1923, this is a dramatic play by Anthony Trollope, which was never staged. Trollope described it as 'a comedy, partly in blank verse, and partly in prose', and explained that 'the plot I afterward used in a novel called Can You Forgive Her?&apos.Edited by Michael Sadleir.Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Minor bump to back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .
