TROLLOPE, Anthony.

Ayala's Angel ... in three Volumes ...

London: Chapman and Hall ... 1881. 3 vols., 8vo., with the terminal blank in volume III; a few spots and stains throughout, ink markings to fore-edge of volume II, not affecting text, and rear free endpaper adhered to pastedown; original orange silk-grained cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gold; slightly shaken, spines dull, hinges cracking slightly, faint trace of library labels, withal a good copy of a title difficult to find in fine condition; according to Sadleir, ‘its circulation must have been almost entirely a library one’. First edition. An entertaining social comedy, Ayala’s Angel follows the fortunes of the orphaned sisters Ayala and Lucy Dormer as they seek out suitable husbands. Lucy, the quieter sister, settles happily with an artist, Isadore Hamel. The romantic Ayala, however, finds that none of her suitors matches up to her idealized vision of a husband. Eventually she accepts a proposal from the youngest colonel in the British Army, Jonathan Stubbs; though ugly, his persistence and good sense overcome all Ayala’s objections, and he ends the novel transfigured into her ‘Angel of Light’. Sadleir, Trollope 60.

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