The Way We Live Now

No book-club issue is possible for an 1875 Trollope; the tells are remainder and reprint issues. Roughly eight months after book publication Chatto & Windus bought up the remaining Chapman and Hall sheets and issued them under a Chatto & Windus title page and binding — the same printed sheets, but not the first edition, and the substituted title page is the tell. Chapman and Hall separately offered the two volumes bound as one in the same green cloth, sold notably at railway stalls; this is a publisher's alternative binding of the original sheets rather than a remainder, and both original title pages are reported present in it. The Tauchnitz (Leipzig) 1875 issue is a continental reprint. Any copy with a Chatto & Windus title page, and any later one-volume Chapman and Hall reprint, is a "first thus" at best.