HUNTING SKETCHES by Trollope, Anthony - 1865

1865. [with October 1864 ads] London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 36 pp ads dated October 1864. Original red cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of eight sketches about hunting, such as "The Man who Hunts and doesn't Like it" and "The Man who Hunts and does Like it." Trollope frequently employed hunting scenes in his fiction: Not all Trollope lovers are in sympathy with his long and frequent detailed descriptions of riding with the hounds, but no one in English fiction has done them better. His sense of inferiority, which had grown during his unhappy schooldays and his wasted years at uncongenial tasks at the Post Office, was first dispelled by his participation in the sport of hunting... [Gerould] Earlier in 1865, these sketches had appeared individually in the "Pall Mall Gazette"; later that year, eight more appeared there, collected the following year in a matching volume titled TRAVELLING SKETCHES. HUNTING SKETCHES was issued without a half-title, and also without titling on the spine. This copy has, rather than the usual May 1865 ad catalogue, the very uncommon catalogue dated October 1864: Sadleir never saw such a copy, but heard about it and commented "The essays were not even thought of, much less written or published, so early as October 1864" -- so this is a case of the binder using up leftover catalogues. The volume's condition is near-fine with scarcely any wear (spine very slightly darkened). Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 21; Wolff 6781. Housed in a felt-lined clamshell case with leather label.