fifth edition, inscribed presentation copy from the author to Blanche Thwaite with autograph ABC poem in Trollope's hand on 2 pp. at the end, 32pp. publisher's catalogue, bookplate of bibliophile A. Edward Newton on front pastedown and further bookplate of Carroll Atwood Wilson loosely inserted, later morocco-backed boards, 8vo , 1861. An intriguing and uniquely collectable item for collectors of Trollope . Beyond the occasional alterations by Trollope, the autograph poem's text is essentially that of the famous The Siege of Belgrade , written by the Reverend B. Poulter but often erroneously attributed to Alaric Watts. In the poem, about the unsuccessful Ottoman raid on the Serbian city, each letter of the alphabet appears as the first letter of each successive line, and that same letter begins every word in the line. Perhaps the most intriguing of Trollope's alterations is to the line that begins with the letter I. In the original poem, that line reads: "Infuriate, indiscriminate in ill." Trollope has changed the beginning to read: "Ibraham, Islam, Ismael...." Provenance: This book belonged at one time to the renowned book-collector A. Edward Newton, famous also as founder of the Trollope Society, who once remarked that Trollope had "written a greater number of first-class novels than Dickens or Thackeray or George Eliot." Alongside Newton's bookplate, the copy also contains that of another noted bibliophile, Carroll Atwood Wilson.