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1906006551London: Doves Press 1906. Limited Edition. First Edition Thus. Full Vellum. Near Fine. One of 300 copies in limitation. 8vo. 23.5 by 16.5 cm. 310 pp. Condition: a touch of soiling on the vellum spine. Overall a beautiful copy of this private press landmark. <br/><br/> Doves Press hardcover books
183824655London: Saunders and Otley 1838. First English Trade Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original plum cloth-backed boards printed paper spine label; xii3102adspp. Spine a bit discolored label darkened with very tiny vertical crack else a Very Good copy in original binding. Armorial bookpate of an Edward Arthur Lee to front pastedown; slightly later 1840 ownership signature to front free endpaper. Meta-fictional comic novel first serialized in Fraser's Magazine 1833-1834 from which a few separate copies were distributed privately. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CARLYLE 1881 17. Saunders and Otley unknown books
1885229257London: Chapman and Hall 1885. The Ashburton Edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume I numerous plates throughout the set. 17 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco and marbled boards gilt spines raised bands t.e.g. Fine handsome set. The Ashburton Edition". Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume I numerous plates throughout the set. 17 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
19031883Canton: The Kirgate Press 1903. First edition. First edition. 4to. Superb intensely ornate decorative and inlaid binding by RALPH RANDOLPH ADAMS an innovative binder in the early 1900's who revitalized the Viennese inlay or mosaic technique in fine binding. ONE OF ONLY 15 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPAN PAPER. TEG others uncut. Bound in full brown morocco; the front cover is nearly completely filled with ornate leaf and stylized floral design ipress in the leather inlaid black petals arranged in groups with gilt stamped internal designs and inlaid black petals similar designs on back cover and spine From "Brush and Pencil" 1904: "Randolph Adams whose magnificent bindings in Viennese inlay have become so well know of late. and wonderful mosaic designs in leather surpass it is said anything o fthe sort hitherto attempted by either ancient or modern binders and his bindings are in the collections of many well-known connoisseurs." An important though perhaps lesser known American fine bookbinder. Margins of spine sightly corners very slightly rubbed an extremely tight and solid binding near fine. <br/><br/> The Kirgate Press hardcover books
282124New York: Scribner. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece. 30 volumes 8vo 3/4 green morocco spines evenly faded to brown gilt-stamped raised spines top edges gilt New York.: Charles Scribner's n.d. ca. 1930. Near Fine. Centenary edition.<br/><br/> Scribner unknown books
183765348Capturing the French Revolution CARLYLE Thomas. The French Revolution. A History. In Three Volumes. London: James Fraser 1837. First edition. Three octavo volumes 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 197 x 121 mm. vii 1 404; vii 1 422 2 publisher's ads; vii 1 448 pp. Complete with half-titles and the integral ad leaf in Vol. II. Uncut. Publisher's brown boards expertly rebacked to style and with original printed spine labels laid down. Some expectable rubbing to boards but still a remarkable copy. Very difficult to find in the original boards and complete. housed in a blue cloth clamshell case with a red morocco gilt spine label. "Of the three great political upheavals which have altered the face of the earth-the American French and Russian Revolutions-only the French has stimulated literary masterpieces which in turn have made their impact direct and indirect upon millions of readers who would have and have left unread the productions of dispassionate scholarship. They are Carlyle's book offered here and the 'History of the French Revolution' by Michelet. Carlyle wrote his French revolution as a secular 'tract for the times' and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German romanticism were his lodestars; 'History is the essence of innumerable biographies' was his historical creed. The result is not a work of scholarship but a prose epic teeming with colorful scenes of dramatic events and imaginative portraits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at once captured the Englihs-speaking world and has outside France moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day" PMM. Printing and the Mind of Man 304. HBS 65348. $3500 James Fraser hardcover books
18743586London: Chapman and Hall 1874. First Thus. Near Fine. Library Edition. Thirty-four octavo volumes 207 x 133 mm uniformly bound by Morrell ca. 1930 in three-quarter crushed brown levant morocco over brown cloth ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands decoratively gilt lettered and tooled in compartments. Two volumes professionally repaired at top of spines. Engraved frontispieces and plates. The Library edition originally issued in 30 volumes 1869-71 with three additional volumes translations from the German added in 1871 and also a thirty-fourth volume as General Index . A near fine set. <br/><br/>"In literature Carlyle was the pioneer who explored and made known the work of modern Germany. His literary judgments were penetrating and when he had a congenial subject just; and on men like Voltaire Burns and Johnson he gave verdicts that approached finality. At a historian he is in the highest rank. Bating certain unimportant errors of detail he illumined the past with astonishing insight and made his personages actual and his scenes dramatic. His style is an extraordinary farrago leaping not flowing coining strange words and performing extravagant evolutions; yet cumulatively it impresses as a great style suffused with humor irony and passion; impossible to imitate utterly personal burning and convincing" British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. Beautifully bound by W. T. Morrell on London established c. 1861 as successor to the firm begun by Francis Bedford who in turn had assumed control of the esteemed bindery of Charles Lewis. Sarah T. Prideaux in Modern Bookbindings states that Morrell had a very large business that supplied "all the booksellers with bindings designed by his men" bindings that were "remarkable for their variety and merit." Near Fine. Chapman and Hall unknown books
03825London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1889. Considered to be One of the Finest Works of the Nineteenth Century<br/>A Superb Binding by Rivière & Son<br/><br/>RIVIÈRE & SON binders. CARLYLE Thomas. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1889. <br/><br/>Sixteenmo 6 3/16 x 3 5/8 inches; 157 x 93 mm. vi 306 1 imprint 5 blank pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Title-page printed in red and black.<br/><br/>Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son stamp signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full antelope crushed levant morocco covers decoratively ruled in gilt surrounding a very elaborate floral design in pointillé spine with five raised bands similarly decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt-ruled board edges full dark blue morocco liners elaborately decorated in gilt blue watered silk end-leaves top edge gilt. A wonderful example of the art of 'pointillé'.<br/><br/>Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a Scottish philosopher satirical writer essayist historian and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era. One of those conferences resulted in his famous work On Heroes and Hero Worship and The Heroic in History where he explains that the key role in history lies in the actions of the "Great Man" claiming that "History is nothing but the biography of the Great Man". A respected historian his 1837 book The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities and remains popular today. Carlyle's 1836 Sartor Resartus is considered one of the finest works of the nineteenth century.<br/><br/>Sartor Resartus meaning 'The tailor re-tailored' is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle first published as a serial in 1833-34 in Fraser's Magazine. The novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh which translates as 'god-born devil-dung' author of a tome entitled "Clothes: Their Origin and Influence" but was actually a poioumenon. Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a skeptical English Reviewer referred to as Editor who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher. The work is in part a parody of Hegel and of German Idealism more generally. However Teufelsdröckh is also a literary device with which Carlyle can express difficult truths. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889 unknown books
1880179594London: Chapman and Hall 1880. hardcover. very good. 34 volumes 30 original 1 volume Index 3 volumes of Carlyle's Translations from the German. Frontispiece illustrations in some volumes. 8vo handsomely bound in 3/4 tan polished calf; gilt-decorated spines with raised bands and red and black leather labels marbled boards and edges three volumes slightly chipped. London: Chapman and Hall no date circa 1880. A good set. The Library Edition.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
1880135178London: Chapman and Hall 1880. hardcover. very good. 34 volumes 30 original 1 volume Index 3 volumes of Carlyle's Translations from the German. Frontispiece illustrations in some volumes. 8vo handsomely bound in 3/4 tan polished calf; ornately gilt-decorated spines with raised bands; burgundy and black leather labels marbled edges. London: Chapman and Hall no date circa 1880. A very good set. The Library Edition.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
