Boston: Dana Estes & Company, [ca. 1895]. Centennial Memorial Edition, limited. Hardcover. 493/1000. Original three quarter brown leather over decorative boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spines; raised bands. Top edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Frontispieces, in b/w or color, with printed tissue guards. Title..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xv, 560pp. x, 613pp. Original blind-stamped black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Lacking backstrip in vol. II. Frontispiece engraving in both volumes. Contents: Vol. I: Introduction. To the Beginning of the Civil War 1636-42. To the End of the..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 x 4 3/4"). VI, [2], 399, [1]pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped full vellum, with gold lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Composed in only seven weeks as a 'respite' from the harassing labor of writing "Cromwell," Thomas Carlyle's "Past and Present"..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. First London trade edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 x 5"). XII, 310, [2]pp (Publisher's advertisement). Original half cloth over paper covered boards, with printed title label on spine. "Sartor Resartus" is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. Originally published in serial form in "Fraser's Magazine"..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5"). [2], 55, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers. Originally published in "Macmillan's Magazine" (Edinburgh, Vol. XVI, April 1867), "Shooting Niagara: And After?" was written after the passing of the Electoral Reform Act of 1867 in which Carlyle..... More
Durham: Duke University Press, 1970-1995. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Cream cloth boards with gilt lettering over green labels on the spines. Includes vol.1-10, 12-18, 23. This is a collection of the letters and correspondence of the famed Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle. This..... More
London: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Limited ed. Hardcover. 1/1500. 8vo. xix. 377pp. Blue cloth with gold bordering to boards, gold illustration to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Spine faded. Corners rubbed. Top page edge gilt. Illustrated end papers. Great work of literature..... More
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Methuen & Co., 1904. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. lxii, 523, xiii, 604, xii, 557pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spines. Light brown top edges. Title pages printed in red and black. Edited in three volumes with notes, supplement and..... More