Brown cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Ralph the Heir is a novel by Anthony Trollope, originally published in 1871. Although Trollope described it as “one of the worst novels I have written”, it was well received by contemporary critics. More recently, readers have found it noteworthy for its account of a corrupt Parliamentary election, an account based closely on Trollope’s own experience as a candidate.
Ralph the Heir was initially published as a supplement to St. Paul’s Magazine in monthly numbers from January 1870 to July 1871. In April 1871, it was published in three volumes by Hurst and Blackett. Also in 1871, a one-volume edition was published by Strahan and Co.; an English-language edition was released by Tauchnitz of Leipzig; an American edition was issued by Harper; and a Russian translation, Naslednik Ralph, was published in St. Petersburg. In 1872, the novel was published in Danish as Arvingden Ralph; in 1874, a Swedish translation, Ralph, was released in Stockholm.
More recently, editions of the novel have been released by Dover in 1978, by Oxford University Press in 1990, and by the Trollope Society in 1996. Trollope received a total of £2,500 for the novel: the same amount that he had received for The Vicar
of Bullhampton the previous year, and that he received for The Eustace Diamonds two years later.