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1836Best.-Nr. 08395Boston: James Munroe and Company 1836. Three Quarter Leather. Near Fine. Small Octavo. First Published Edition. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of 500 Copies. Bound in 3/4 black textured leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine marbled endpapers. Additional lined paper pages bound in front and rear. Mild cover edge wear. Minimal scattered foxing. viii 299 pp. The American edition is the first published edition of which only 500 copies were printed. The British edition of 1834 was limited to 58 copies for friends and used the plates from Fraser's Magazine. Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. James Munroe and Company hardcover
1836Best.-Nr. 08395Boston: James Munroe and Company 1836. Three Quarter Leather. Near Fine. Small Octavo. First Published Edition. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of 500 Copies. Bound in 3/4 black textured leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine marbled endpapers. Additional lined paper pages bound in front and rear. Mild cover edge wear. Minimal scattered foxing. viii 299 pp. The American edition is the first published edition of which only 500 copies were printed. The British edition of 1834 was limited to 58 copies for friends and used the plates from Fraser's Magazine. Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. James Munroe and Company hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 16-6016London: The Museum Galleries 1923. Original color mezzotint. 25 x 18.5cm.platemark. 48.5 x 35cm. sheet size. Thick rag paper without watermark. Together with the letterpress text: As published in : "The Gallery of One Hundred Famous Portraits of Great Men and Women . First series." . 58x 46cm. Thomas Crawford Hamilton exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1879 until 1889 giving his address as Glasgow. He worked in a variety of media including oil pencil and watercolour and painted landscapes important historical buildings and religious subjects. Hamilton left behind some fine drawings of the exterior and interior of the newly-opened Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Among his works there are also some interesting portraits.Reference: National Galleries of Scotland Accession number: SP VI 12.4.Provenance : From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner Jr. the founder of Gale Research Detroit. London: The Museum Galleries, 1923 unknown
Best.-Nr. 16-6034London: Etchers' Society 1881. Original cover etched frontispiece and one portrait of 6. Laid paper. 43 x 30.5 cm. sheet size. Marginal tears and foxing. Very rare. Included are:-Title-page: a man etching seated beneath a tree and two roundels with heads of Carlyle19120212.3: and - Young man seated in profile to right three quarter length; hat balanced on knee legs crossed; after Tait .References: B.M Museum number 19130212.2-8; O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum 25.a-f ; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 5048968.Howard Helmick was born in Ohio in 1840 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He moved to Paris in 1854 and trained alongside Henry Baconat the École des Beaux-Artsin Paris devoting himself to genre painting. He moved to London in 1872 and from there regularly visited Ireland. Best known for his Irish genre studies and paintings of Irish households Helmick was the foremost artist among a small set of painters who focused on rural Irish culture and was hailed by contempo rary critics as an American Wilkie. Throughout his time in London he regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy the Royal Institute of Oil Painters the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers the Society of British Artists and the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham. He also exhibited work at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts the Royal Hibernian Academy the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery. He was elected a member of Society of British Artists in 1879 and the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers in 1881. He died at home in Georgetown Washington D.C. in 1907. .Provenance : From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner Jr. the founder of Gale Research Detroit. London: Etchers' Society, 1881 unknown
1905Best.-Nr. 32765London England: Chapman and Hall 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leather over green cloth with raised bands on spine and vivid gold lettering on spine top edges gilt marbled endpapers frontispiece engravings protected by a tissue guard red and black lettering on title pages all volumes present in very good condition. Unmarked and clean. Age toning very light. A few volumes show light foxing on bottom edge and/or fore-edges of text block toning darker on some edges of text block than on pages where it's in all cases very light boards undamaged. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1866Best.-Nr. SET44-C-1London : Chapman and Hall 1866-1869. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A uniformly bound collection of the works of Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle 4 December 1795 5 February 1881 was a Scottish philosopher satirical writer essayist historian and teacher during the Victorian era. His combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order. He brought a trenchant style to his social and political criticism and a complex literary style to his works. His works themselves were incredibly diverse a fact testified to in this set which features fiction histories lectures essays biographies translations and satires. This collection ordered here in a rough chronology contains: - Sartor Resartus and Lectures on Heroes. - The French Revolution in two volumes. - Chartism and Past and Present. - Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations in two volumes. - Latter-Day Pamphlets. - Two Biographies: Friedrich Schiller; John Sterling. - History of Friedrich II of Prussia called Frederick the Great in seven volumes. - Translations from the German in two volumes. - Miscellaneous Essays in four volumes. Notable inclusions amongst these titles are Sartor Resartus - Carlyle's first major work and an ambitious attempt to create a new kind of book - The French Revolution - a similarly momentous work that 'was filled with a passion hitherto unknown in historical writing'- and Frederick the Great Carlyle's last major work. The fourth volume of the latter contains several attractive folding map plates. Bound by W. Bone & Son. With 21 volumes in total. In full cloth bindings Externally sound with light shelfwear to extremities and small marks to some boards. Spines are sunned. One hinge failed four hinges strained. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are largely bright and clean with only occasional handling marks or spots apparent. Good Chapman and Hall hardcover
Best.-Nr. 41583c. 1839-1915 Draper Sewing Machine and Bicycle Dealer in Yeovil saying "It seems to me beyond all question that Christianity in every part and shape of it is worthy of the best and deepest consideration from every serious pious minded man. What any further notions on the subject may be & do not at present state but I will practically recommend to you the following list of reading which you will find in the last volume people's edit of Carlyles's Translation of Meister viz; Meister's Travels Chapters 11 & 12 if indeed you have not already read the whole work which is well worth your while. Kinder slightly symbolised or poetic forms you will there find what I have long considered the truest and wisest utterance concerning Education and religion that has hitherto been published by any man. In fact if you read the whole volume and again read it till it becomes significant & you feel and understand it the task will be well worth your while." 2 sides 8vo. with integral blank and original envelope 5 Cheyne Row Chelsea 31st December 1875 together with a fine Albumen Carte de visite Photo by Francis Earl of the recipient possibly with his signature on the verso 4" x 2½" Worcester circa Francis Charles Earl circa 1829-1903 was a Photographer in Worcester. unknown
1858Best.-Nr. mon0000187536Chapman and Hall 1858-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover LIBRARY REBIND. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable colouring of page edges due to age. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. mon0000037207Peter Fenelon Collier 1897. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Peter Fenelon Collier hardcover
1884Best.-Nr. 1402354Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat 1884. Deluxe Edition #164/315. Hardcover. Octavo 20 volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Brown paneled spines with gilt lettering. Gilt ruled boards half-bound in brown leather with marbled paper. Boards have light rubbing wear minor chipping to some spine ends and fore corners and bumping to fore corners. Textblocks have marbled end papers a bookstore label to the rear pastedowns mild to moderate offsetting to pages opposite frontispieces age toning from the red ribbon page markers age toning to edges and gilt to top edges. Some maps have hand-coloring. Will be shelved somewhere on the floor/ need to coordinate with Dylan Partially uncut text in volumes “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays” I and II “Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” I and II and “The Life of Friedrich Schiller”. The volume “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” has significant rubbing wear to the front pastedown. Volumes “The French Revolution II” and “Sartor Resartus” have ink and pencil marks to the front free end pages. Completed in 20 Volumes. Contains: “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays…” Vol. 1-4;-- “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” Vol. 1-7;-- “The French Revolution” Vol. 1-2;-- “Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” Vol. 1-3;-- “Past and Present: The Portraits of John Knox Miscellanies”;-- “The Life of John Sterling”;-- “Sartor Resartus…Heroes and Hero-Worship”;-- “The Life of Friedrich Schiller”. Limited edition of three hundred and fifteen copies on parchment linen paper. A further thirty five copies were printed on Japanese paper. 1402354. FP New Rockville Stock. Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat hardcover
1884Best.-Nr. 1402354Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat 1884. Deluxe Edition #164/315. Hardcover. Octavo 20 volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Brown paneled spines with gilt lettering. Gilt ruled boards half-bound in brown leather with marbled paper. Boards have light rubbing wear minor chipping to some spine ends and fore corners and bumping to fore corners. Textblocks have marbled end papers a bookstore label to the rear pastedowns mild to moderate offsetting to pages opposite frontispieces age toning from the red ribbon page markers age toning to edges and gilt to top edges. Some maps have hand-coloring. Will be shelved somewhere on the floor/ need to coordinate with Dylan Partially uncut text in volumes “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays” I and II “Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” I and II and “The Life of Friedrich Schiller”. The volume “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” has significant rubbing wear to the front pastedown. Volumes “The French Revolution II” and “Sartor Resartus” have ink and pencil marks to the front free end pages. Completed in 20 Volumes. Contains: “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays…” Vol. 1-4;-- “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” Vol. 1-7;-- “The French Revolution” Vol. 1-2;-- “Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” Vol. 1-3;-- “Past and Present: The Portraits of John Knox Miscellanies”;-- “The Life of John Sterling”;-- “Sartor Resartus…Heroes and Hero-Worship”;-- “The Life of Friedrich Schiller”. Limited edition of three hundred and fifteen copies on parchment linen paper. A further thirty five copies were printed on Japanese paper. 1402354. FP New Rockville Stock. Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat hardcover books
1955Best.-Nr. 257741Kew Richmond Surrey 1955. Each on a single folded "Aerogramme" sheet addressed by Cockerell on verso; one page each. 8vo. Very good. Each on a single folded "Aerogramme" sheet addressed by Cockerell on verso; one page each. 8vo. Charming letters from the aging museum director collector and calligrapher to his American counterpart Paul Standard founding member of the Typophiles and champion of calligraphy. In the first Cockerell expresses his delight on receiving the news that he "will have the great pleasure of seeing you and Mrs. Standard here in June - by the same post came one from RUTH DRAPER saying exactly the same thing . I shall be delighted to show you my Bembo ms and other fine specimens of Italian calligraphy." In the second Cockerell touchingly apologizes for his tardiness in answering: "I am going through rather a tiresome phase of my malady Old Age which makes me lethargic and rather disinclined to answer letters . Stella dear I think of you lovingly and wish speedy completion to your new book with much applause to follow. Dear Paul I feel that we understand each other and have a mutual affecton which wll not wear thin ." In the last letter Cockerell is glad to know that "'Italian Food' by Elizabeth David has been an acceptable addition to Stella's culinary library . Also I was glad to have news of STANLEY MORISON for whom I have great admiration . BR is another old and dear friend to whom I am glad to have had my recalled - He is maturing but I believe he's not eager to grow old - what a lot he has done for printing both in America and here .". unknown
1955Best.-Nr. 257741Kew Richmond Surrey 1955. Each on a single folded "Aerogramme" sheet addressed by Cockerell on verso; one page each. 8vo. Very good. Each on a single folded "Aerogramme" sheet addressed by Cockerell on verso; one page each. 8vo. Charming letters from the aging museum director collector and calligrapher to his American counterpart Paul Standard founding member of the Typophiles and champion of calligraphy. In the first Cockerell expresses his delight on receiving the news that he "will have the great pleasure of seeing you and Mrs. Standard here in June - by the same post came one from RUTH DRAPER saying exactly the same thing . I shall be delighted to show you my Bembo ms and other fine specimens of Italian calligraphy." In the second Cockerell touchingly apologizes for his tardiness in answering: "I am going through rather a tiresome phase of my malady Old Age which makes me lethargic and rather disinclined to answer letters . Stella dear I think of you lovingly and wish speedy completion to your new book with much applause to follow. Dear Paul I feel that we understand each other and have a mutual affecton which wll not wear thin ." In the last letter Cockerell is glad to know that "'Italian Food' by Elizabeth David has been an acceptable addition to Stella's culinary library . Also I was glad to have news of STANLEY MORISON for whom I have great admiration . BR is another old and dear friend to whom I am glad to have had my recalled - He is maturing but I believe he's not eager to grow old - what a lot he has done for printing both in America and here .". unknown books
1825Best.-Nr. 007687London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1825. Book. Near Fine. Full Calf. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In full contemporary polished calf with each cover decorated with a border of 4 blind rules two gilt fillets and blind dot roll tool inner corners with fine gilt floral tool spine with 4 padded compartments with gilt rules and 4 with blind rules gilt lettering and tail date marbled edges and endpapers. With the small label of Hessey Bookseller Fleet Street rear end page. Thomas Carlyle's first published book. Near fine boards lightly rubbed spine a bit darkened light toning primarily to end pages.SCARCE in contemporary fine binding. Printed for Taylor and Hessey Hardcover
1825Best.-Nr. 007687London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1825. Book. Near Fine. Full Calf. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In full contemporary polished calf with each cover decorated with a border of 4 blind rules two gilt fillets and blind dot roll tool inner corners with fine gilt floral tool spine with 4 padded compartments with gilt rules and 4 with blind rules gilt lettering and tail date marbled edges and endpapers. With the small label of Hessey Bookseller Fleet Street rear end page. Thomas Carlyle's first published book. Near fine boards lightly rubbed spine a bit darkened light toning primarily to end pages.SCARCE in contemporary fine binding. Printed for Taylor and Hessey Hardcover books
1897Best.-Nr. mon0000032151Peter Fenelon Collier Publisher 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Peter Fenelon Collier, Publisher hardcover
1871Best.-Nr. 928New York: Scribner Welford and Company 1871. History of Friedrich. 1872-73. 10 vols. Essays. 1872. 7 vols. Oliver Cromwell. 1871. 5 vols. Wilhelm Meister. 1874 3 vols. French Revolution. 1872. 2 vols. Tales by Musaeus. 1874. 3 vols. Latter-day Pamphlets. 1872. 1 vol. Heroes Hero-Worship. 1872. 1 vol. Life of John Sterling. 1871. 1 vol. Sartor Resartus. 1873. 1 vol. Friedrich Schiller. 1873. 1 vol. Past and Present. 1872. 1 vol. Choice of Books. London: John Camden Hotton n.d. General Index. London: Chapman and Hall 1874. 1 vol. All Scribner titles except 2. Bound in uniform 3/4 calf. Light wear and occasional foxing. 38 volumes. Scribner, Welford, and Company unknown books
Best.-Nr. Z1-C-048-01020Nabu Press. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Nabu Press unknown
1897Best.-Nr. mon0000032100Peter Fenelon Collier 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Peter Fenelon Collier hardcover
1838Best.-Nr. 41508London: Saunders and Otley 1838. First London trade edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Octavo 8 x 5". XII 310 2pp 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" in 1833-1834 it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838 our copy. By the 1840s largely on the strength of "Sartor Resartus" Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain. The work is a fictional autobiography of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. Its deeper concerns are social injustice the right way of living in the world and the large questions of faith and understanding. Spine sunned and partly frayed along edges. Moderate rubbing to covers. Front hinge starting. Previous owner's name in ink at upper margin of title page. Sporadic foxing throughout. Clear water-staining at lower margin of a few pages not affecting lettering. Binding in overall fair interior in good to very good condition. Transcendentalism is an American literary political and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller Amos Bronson Alcott Frederic Henry Hedge and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher and the skepticism of Hume the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity and urged that each person find in Emerson's words "an original relation to the universe" O 3. Emerson and Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature and in their writing. By the 1840s they along with other transcendentalists were engaged in the social experiments of Brook Farm Fruitlands and Walden; and by the 1850s in an increasingly urgent critique of American slavery. Saunders and Otley hardcover
1838Best.-Nr. 41508London: Saunders and Otley 1838. First London trade edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Octavo 8 x 5". XII 310 2pp 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" in 1833-1834 it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838 our copy. By the 1840s largely on the strength of "Sartor Resartus" Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain. The work is a fictional autobiography of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. Its deeper concerns are social injustice the right way of living in the world and the large questions of faith and understanding. Spine sunned and partly frayed along edges. Moderate rubbing to covers. Front hinge starting. Previous owner's name in ink at upper margin of title page. Sporadic foxing throughout. Clear water-staining at lower margin of a few pages not affecting lettering. Binding in overall fair interior in good to very good condition. Transcendentalism is an American literary political and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller Amos Bronson Alcott Frederic Henry Hedge and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher and the skepticism of Hume the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity and urged that each person find in Emerson's words "an original relation to the universe" O 3. Emerson and Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature and in their writing. By the 1840s they along with other transcendentalists were engaged in the social experiments of Brook Farm Fruitlands and Walden; and by the 1850s in an increasingly urgent critique of American slavery. Saunders and Otley hardcover books
1838Best.-Nr. 1008F1London: Saunders and Otley 1838 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. A handsome example of the sought after first UK trade edition of philosopher Thomas Carlyle's comic novel 'Sartor Resartus'. The first UK trade edition of this work which was initially published in Fraser's Magazine from November 1833 to August 1834. It is believed that only 500 copies of this edition were produced.In a half calf binding with gilt detailing.Scottish essayist historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle's satirical work offers a commentary on the writings of fictional German thinker Diogenes Teufelsdröckh.The significance of this work lies in its innovative form and influence on Victorian thought combining German philosophical ideas with English prose.Carlyle anticipates later developments in existential and symbolic writing. In a half calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Gilt detailing to back strip. Light rubbing to back strip head and head of front board otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Spotting to first and last few leaves with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Saunders and Otley hardcover
1838Best.-Nr. 433852London : Saunders and Otley 1838. 1st edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in aniline-calf-backed marbled boards. edges nicked dust-dulled and rubbed as with age with some loss. Front board completely detached. Creased and cracked pages with some browning. Scattered foxing. Physical description; 1 v. : ill. ; 13.4 cm. Subjects; xii 310 2 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Philosophers Germany ; Fiction. Philosophy ; Fiction. English literature 19th century. London : Saunders and Otley hardcover
1883Best.-Nr. 1272941883. CARLYLE Jane Welsh CARLYLE Thomas editor. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle Prepared for Publication by Thomas Carlyle. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1883. Three volumes. Octavo contemporary full tan polished calf elaborately gilt-decorated spines raised bands burgundy and blue morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt. $1200.First edition of the first selection of Jane Carlyle's lettersÑ""an electric-shower of all-illuminating brilliancy penetration wise discernment just enthusiasm humor grace patience courage love"" according to her husband Thomas Carlyle who arranged for the letters' publicationÑthree volumes handsomely bound by Riviere & Son.""It is hardly disputed that she is the greatest woman letter writer in English. Her skill often lay in the immediacy of her letters; their appeal lies partly in the story that emerges from her self-dramatization. Short excerpts can barely do them justice. Their effectiveness has nothing to do with elegant prose to which she could always rise much to do with her sympathetic imagination clear head alertness and a quick eye and ear for entirely natural expressionÉ Yet her letters should not be treated simply as autobiography. She was an artist with a keen and critical eye for the weaknesses and strengths of others. She had a strong and alert intellect and her insights whether skeptical or irreverent are always direct. Her companionship with Carlyle was an education itself as his with herÉ His unheard-of decision to publish her letters so completely was justified; he was convinced that they give 'such an electric-shower of all-illuminating brilliancy penetration wise discernment just enthusiasm humor grace patience courage loveÑand in fine of spontaneous nobleness of mind and intellect' surpassing 'whatever of best I know to exist in that kind' Carlyle Reminiscences 161. Her other writings show no such power. She was unwilling to make the effort to express herself in other forms and probably unable. Nevertheless she was a great writer"" ODNB. Tarr Carlyle G1.1.I-III.a. Interiors clean and fine joints lightly rubbed bindings sound near-fine and quite handsome. hardcover
1883Best.-Nr. 1272941883. CARLYLE Jane Welsh CARLYLE Thomas editor. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle Prepared for Publication by Thomas Carlyle. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1883. Three volumes. Octavo contemporary full tan polished calf elaborately gilt-decorated spines raised bands burgundy and blue morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt. $1200.First edition of the first selection of Jane Carlyle's lettersÑ""an electric-shower of all-illuminating brilliancy penetration wise discernment just enthusiasm humor grace patience courage love"" according to her husband Thomas Carlyle who arranged for the letters' publicationÑthree volumes handsomely bound by Riviere & Son.""It is hardly disputed that she is the greatest woman letter writer in English. Her skill often lay in the immediacy of her letters; their appeal lies partly in the story that emerges from her self-dramatization. Short excerpts can barely do them justice. Their effectiveness has nothing to do with elegant prose to which she could always rise much to do with her sympathetic imagination clear head alertness and a quick eye and ear for entirely natural expressionÉ Yet her letters should not be treated simply as autobiography. She was an artist with a keen and critical eye for the weaknesses and strengths of others. She had a strong and alert intellect and her insights whether skeptical or irreverent are always direct. Her companionship with Carlyle was an education itself as his with herÉ His unheard-of decision to publish her letters so completely was justified; he was convinced that they give 'such an electric-shower of all-illuminating brilliancy penetration wise discernment just enthusiasm humor grace patience courage loveÑand in fine of spontaneous nobleness of mind and intellect' surpassing 'whatever of best I know to exist in that kind' Carlyle Reminiscences 161. Her other writings show no such power. She was unwilling to make the effort to express herself in other forms and probably unable. Nevertheless she was a great writer"" ODNB. Tarr Carlyle G1.1.I-III.a. Interiors clean and fine joints lightly rubbed bindings sound near-fine and quite handsome. hardcover books
