# Is "The Small House at Allington" by Anthony Trollope a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope (Smith, Elder & Co., 1864) is identified by: First edition in book form in two volumes, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1864, illustrated with eighteen plates by John Everett Millais (volume I: frontispiece plus nine plates; volume II: frontispiece plus seven plates). The Smith, Elder two-volume edition is the true first, following serialization in the Cornhill Magazine (September 1862-April 1864); it is the fifth of the Barsetshire novels.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- First edition in book form in two volumes, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1864, illustrated with eighteen plates by John Everett Millais (volume I: frontispiece plus nine plates; volume II: frontispiece plus seven plates)
- The first printing is identified by two textual points in volume I: the misprint 'hobbledehoya' at page 33, line 1, and page 70 mispaginated as '0.' A correct copy retains the half-title in volume I and the coated endpapers carrying integral publisher's advertisements; issued in publisher's blind-stamped cloth
- Recorded in Sadleir's Trollope bibliography
- Publisher imprint reads Smith, Elder & Co.
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder & Co. |
| Year | 1864 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | First edition in book form in two volumes, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1864, illustrated with eighteen plates by John Everett Millais… |
| Book-club edition exists? | Yes |

## Points of issue
First edition in book form in two volumes, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1864, illustrated with eighteen plates by John Everett Millais (volume I: frontispiece plus nine plates; volume II: frontispiece plus seven plates). The first printing is identified by two textual points in volume I: the misprint 'hobbledehoya' at page 33, line 1, and page 70 mispaginated as '0.' A correct copy retains the half-title in volume I and the coated endpapers carrying integral publisher's advertisements; issued in publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Recorded in Sadleir's Trollope bibliography.

## Is this the true first?
The Smith, Elder two-volume edition is the true first, following serialization in the Cornhill Magazine (September 1862-April 1864); it is the fifth of the Barsetshire novels. A US edition (Harper & Brothers) also appeared in 1864, but the London two-volume edition is the true first.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
Original cloth is scarce and the book is frequently rebound. Later one-volume Smith, Elder and Chapman & Hall reprintings lack the two first-printing points ('hobbledehoya' and the '0' pagination) and are not the first edition.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Small House at Allington* by Anthony Trollope a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-small-house-at-allington
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.