The Last Chronicle of Barset [Bound from the Original Parts with the Original Wrappers bound in]

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the First edition, First Issue, bound from the original Parts WITH THE WRAPPERS FOR EACH PART BOUND IN TO THE REAR OF EACH VOLUME WITH A MULTITUDE OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR EACH PART bound between their respective wrappers (excluding the advertisements for Part XXVI for which no seperate advertisements are included); with the Publisher's rights printed on the verso of both title pages (omitted from verso of title page in vol. 2 for the book form edition) with the plate facing p. 297 of Volume II with the semicolon present after "HoggleStockians" (missing in the bound edition), and the plate facing p. 371 spelling "Consent" with a capital "C". On Page 157 of Volume I the final "D" of the running headline is perfect (it appears broken in the second edition), and in Volume 2, p. 298 line 21, third word is "Crawley" (which was changed to "Toogood" in the second edition). The leaves and wrappers have been rebound in 3/4 blue leather with coordinated blue cloth, and the top edge of each volume's closed page block is gilt. Each volume's binding shows some imperfections due to age and use. Within, the leaves show some mild scattered foxing and the top leading corner of one leaf has been torn away but this does not affect any of the text. Another leaf has an area of heavy stain to its outer and bottom margins. A tape repair appears to the leaf in Volume II hosting pp. 71/72 and another to an advertisement in Part 5. Finally, the wrappers to the final two Parts are rather soiled. This work is the last of the six (6) Trollope novels in his wonderful Barsetshire series of novels, and of this final installment Trollope stated: "I regard this as the best novel I have written." The novel is centered around a devout Clergymen, Josiah Crawley, and an allegation made against him that he had stolen a check. The tale also covers the death of quite unpleasant Mrs. Proudie, the then-Bishop's wife, and the Bishop's consequent release from her thralldom. Of Trollope, Henry James stated: "His [Trollope's] great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation of the usual. ... [H]e felt all daily and immediate things as well as saw them; felt them in a simple, direct, salubrious way, with their sadness, their gladness, their charm, their comicality, all their obvious and measurable meanings. ... Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy, though not one of the most eloquent, of the writers who have helped the heart of man to know itself. ... A race is fortunate when it has a good deal of the sort of imagination—of imaginative feeling—that had fallen to the share of Anthony Trollope; and in this possession our English race is not poor." A QUITE SCARCE COPY BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS WITH THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND A MULTITUDE OF ADVERTISEMENTS BOUND IN TO THE REAR OF EACH VOLUME, the form in which the tale was first issued to the public. QUITE SCARCE TO RARE TO THE MARKET AND DIFFICULT TO FIND.