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1842005217London: Chapman and Hall 1842. Three volumes complete - Volume One - 5 vi-xix 4 2-324pp; Volume Two - 5 4-377pp 1; Volume Three - 5 iv-xxxi 6 38-290pp. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper over boards raised bands spines in six panels title lettered directly in gilt to second panel translator and volume number to fourth panel with place and date to foot t.e.g. marbled endpapers. Spines slightly faded very minor rubbing to extremities internally occasional pencil lines to margins a few instances of light foxing but generally fairly bright and clean. Armorial book plate of Robert Balloch to front pastedowns. A revised edition first published in English translation in 1824. Dyer page 262; Morgan 'German Literature in English Translation' 3001; Tarr A.2.3.I-III.b. Reprint. Hardback. Good. 12mo. Chapman and Hall Hardcover
182532857London: Taylor and Hessey 1825. First Edition. With frontispiece portrait of Schiller engraved by Bull after Graff. 8vo bound in three quarter polished calf over marbled paper covered boards the spine with raised bands gilt decorated the compartments of the spine gilt tooled one compartment with lettering label gilt. vi 352pp. A good copy of the author's first book some light offsetting to the title from the frontispiece portrait some rubbing and light edge wear to the binding rear board tender and nearly detached. FIRST EDITION AND A VERY EARLY WORK BY ONE THE GREATEST SOCIAL COMMENTATORS OF HIS TIME. Carlyle's thinking was heavily influenced by German idealism and he established himself as an expert on German literature. He was well suited to craft this fine biography of the famous German poet philosopher physician historian and playwright. As both an historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle was a pivotal thinker in nineteenth century Britain. He became the center of a circle of intellectuals in London that included John Stuart Mill Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Taylor and Hessey hardcover
182527701London: Taylor and Hessey 1825. First Edition. With frontis portrait of Schiller engraved by Bull after Graff. 8vo in the scarce original textured cloth paper label on the spine printed in black. vi 352pp. A near fine copy of the author's first book some offsetting to the title from the frontis portrait light edge wear light wear to the spine label not affecting lettering. A VERY EARLY WORK BY ONE THE GREATEST SOCIAL COMMENTATORS OF HIS TIME. Carlyle's thinking was heavily influenced by German idealism and he established himself as an expert on German literature. He was well suited to craft this fine biography of the famous German poet philosopher physician historian and playwright. Taylor and Hessey hardcover
1898ST20842Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press 1898. ONE OF 525 COPIES on paper and 12 on vellum. 210 x 150 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". 4 p.l. including two blanks 70 pp. 1 leaf colophon. <br/> Original holland-backed blue paper boards. WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES of "Pysche Borne off by Zephyrus" ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM MORRIS elaborate borders around this and first page of text designed and cut by Morris large decorative woodcut initials device on last page of text and one full-page woodcut of ornaments used in the Kelmscott edition of "Love is Enough." Printed in red and black in Golden Troy and Chaucer types. With errata slip laid in at title page. Front pastedown with Arts & Crafts-style bookplate of Edmund Bulkley dated 1893; a list of the Kelmscott books in E. W. Buckley's collection listed by the number assigned to them in this book recorded in pencil on a translucent piece of paper laid in here. Morris & Cockerell 53; Peterson A-53; Ransom 53; Tomkinson p. 121. Some wear to lower corners just a hint of soil to covers otherwise a very fine copy--exceptionally fresh clean and bright internally.<br/> <br/> Owned by two collectors with a special interest in Morris this is a very pleasing copy of one of the key Kelmscott Press books and the last one to be issued by the press. Morris tells us here about his admiration for 15th century printed books saying that "they were always beautiful by force of the mere typography even without the added ornament with which many of them are so lavishly supplied." And he says that "it was the essence of his undertaking to produce books which it would be a pleasure to look upon as pieces of printing and arrangement of type." This is the most important contemporaneous source of comment on the founding operation and publications of the Kelmscott Press. Peterson quotes Newdigate who says that this is "one of the three books that every student of English book-production ought to read." The original owner here was American private press collector Edmund Bulkley who according to the list laid in at the rear of this volume owned 42 Kelmscott books. Evidently prepared after Bulkley's death the list also marks with a "0" the books sold before 1950 and notes at the end the books including this volume that remained in the possession of "M A B B." this might refer to a relation possibly art collector M. A. B. Bulkley who bequeathed a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1996. Bulkley's distinctive bookplate perhaps created by one of the private presses is found in a number of press books which when listed at auction are in notably fine condition. In 1883 Morris & Company took out a full-page ad in the Official Catalogue of the Boston Foreign Exhibition announcing the appointment of Elliott & Bulkley of 42 East 14th Street New York City as U.S. agents for the sale of Morris & Co. "Decorative Manufactures" including wallpaper fabrics and "the celebrated Hammersmith carpets made only by Morris & Company." It is tempting to speculate that Edmund Bulkley was associated with this firm and became aware of the Kelmscott Press via this connection with Morris & Company. Although without additional signs of ownership our book was later sold as part of the library of Clive Wilmer 1945-2025 English poet and scholar of John Ruskin and William Morris. He wrote and lectured extensively on both men and from 2009 to 2019 served as Master of The Guild of St. George a charity for arts crafts and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in 1871. The Ruskin Society of North America presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Copies of this work appear with some regularity in the marketplace but specimens in attractive condition are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Kelmscott Press unknown
18855374631885. Unbound. Very Good. Collodion photograph of John Carlyle half-brother of Thomas Thomas Carlyle and Mrs. Alex Carlyle sister-in-law of Thomas seated on the steps of a building. Oval image measures approximately 4.5" x 3.25" at its widest points; 5.5" x 5" at the margins. The subjects are identified lightly in pencil in the margins below the image. Removed from an album the paper is skinned on the verso but which doesn't affect the image which is otherwise clear bright and about fine. Thomas Carlyle smokes a pipe on the steps of a pillared grand public building. unknown
1827008736Edinburgh: William Tait 1827. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE. Four volumes rebound in later 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards a Very Good set calf worn at corners boards a bit rubbed lacking half titles and added engraved title pages p.145 in Vol. IV misnumbered 149. From the personal library of noted medievalist Charle W. Jones his signature FEP each volume. Thomas Carlyle's 3rd book appearance to which he contributed a preface to the whole work and biographical and critical introductions for the authors here included. The last volume comprises the first English edition of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Travels". William Tait Hardcover
1880519552No Place: No Photographer 1880. Unbound. Near Fine. Albumen print photographic portrait measuring 4" x 5.5" depicts Thomas Carlyle wearing a dark overcoat from the chest up facing the camera over his left shoulder. The photograph is mounted on octavo sheet of contemporary heavy stock paper. Identified beneath the image in contemporary ink holograph in an unknown hand: "Thomas Carlyle No Photographer unknown
1845D19665London: Chapman & Hall 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition." With a presentation inscription from Carlyle on the front free endpaper: "To Samuel Rogers Esq. with many kind regards T.C. Chelsea 13 July 1845." Backstrip restored; hinges repaired. In a morocco-backed folding case. Another of the younger generation who met Rogers about 1838 was Thomas Carlyle; and the gruff Scotsman's impressions hackneyed as they are must be quoted: "Old Rogers with his pale head white bare and cold as snow. those large blue eyes cruel sorrowful and that sardonic shelf chin." It is evident that Carlyle rebel as he was was impressed with the "grim old dilettante full of sardonic sense"; and when we remember how unresponsive was Carlyle to mere reputations and how hopelessly unfair even to greatness that did not agree with him his tribute is remarkable. There must have been a force of character trained and controlled to make this wild prophet of a new age write so definitely of an old poet to the fellow-prophet in America Ralph Waldo Emerson. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover
