Ownership inscription to both front pastedowns of G.J. Goschen, later Viscount Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Salisbury. Goschen was asked by Trollope to contribute to his newly formed periodical St.Pauls, 2 essays being published in the first two issues in 1867. Trollope was one of the guests in 1878 at a dinner given by Goschen, at which George Eliot was introduced to the Crown Princess of Prussia, Queen Victoria’s eldest child. Trollope is reputed to have called Goschen at the beginning of his political career ‘our young Apollo’.
Both spines slanted, both boards rubbed and bubbled, head and tail of both spines rubbed and dented, small tears to the outer hinges of both volumes, corners bumped, a few small tears to the margins in the text, one gathering in volume one just working loose but still holding, last advert leaf torn with some loss.
