The Way We Live Now

The census claim of "Chapman & Hall 1875" names only the book form and understates the case. The twenty monthly parts (Chapman and Hall, February 1874 – September 1875) precede and are the first edition; the two-volume book followed in June 1875 — released ahead of the serial's own conclusion because the parts were selling badly. Both are collected, the parts being the senior and far scarcer object; the Trollope Society's chronology independently records the parts as February 1874 – September 1875 with book publication in June 1875. A Harper & Brothers (New York) first American edition also appeared in 1875, in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine titling, illustrated after Fawkes, of 408 pp. plus publisher's advertisements; it is a US reprint and does not compete with the London parts for precedence.