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ref. Z1-G-030-01676AMS Press. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 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. AMS Press unknown
1927ref. 29063n.p.: n.p. 1927. About fine. Large fairy watercolor ink and tempera image used as the wrap-around cover image of TWINKIE TOWN TALES Book No. 2. Henderson adds a rainbow aplomb to this series of fairy-like creatures by author Carlyle Emery. Depicted is a grand feast of the Twinkies: 19 of the cherubic elves are sitting at a table feasting on cake and a cherry larger than their heads. The vibrant image is carefully laid out to consider the final format with the visible interest concentrated on the right-hand side which would become the front cover. The image appears greatly reduced on the book published in a small format 8.5'' tall by St. Louis by Hamilton Brown in 1927. 18'' x 26'' image; 27'' x 36'' frame. Original painting professionally matted and framed not examined outside frame. Title lettering in the upper right corner reading "Twinkie Town Tales BOOK 2." A couple minor scratches to frame; art beautiful. Accompanied by a first edition copy of the book. n.p. unknown books
1885ref. 229257London: 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
1927ref. 29063n.p.: n.p. 1927. About fine. Large fairy watercolor ink and tempera image used as the wrap-around cover image of TWINKIE TOWN TALES Book No. 2. Henderson adds a rainbow aplomb to this series of fairy-like creatures by author Carlyle Emery. Depicted is a grand feast of the Twinkies: 19 of the cherubic elves are sitting at a table feasting on cake and a cherry larger than their heads. The vibrant image is carefully laid out to consider the final format with the visible interest concentrated on the right-hand side which would become the front cover. The image appears greatly reduced on the book published in a small format 8.5'' tall by St. Louis by Hamilton Brown in 1927. 18'' x 26'' image; 27'' x 36'' frame. Original painting professionally matted and framed not examined outside frame. Title lettering in the upper right corner reading "Twinkie Town Tales BOOK 2." A couple minor scratches to frame; art beautiful. Accompanied by a first edition copy of the book. n.p. unknown
1885ref. 229257London: 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
ref. 121976London James Frazer Regent Street 1840. . Second edition with autograph letter tipped-in to front free endpaper & engraved portrait signed by Carlyle in pen to front pastedown; 8vo 20.5 x 13 cm; 3pp. provenance notes loose ownership inscriptions in pen and pencil to front free endpaper recto 1p. publisher's ads to rear the odd crease from old page-folds otherwise internally clean; publisher's blind-stamped grained blue-green cloth spine lettered in gilt spine ever so slightly faded near fine; 4 113 3pp. An excellent copy of the second edition of the historian Thomas Carlyle's 1795-1881 essay on Chartisim in which he raised the 'Condition-of-England' question extra-illustrated with a tipped-in engraved portrait of Carlyle signed by him in pen together with an anonymously addressed autograph letter. The letter dated 4th October 1844 was likely written to the publisher Edward Chapman 1804-1880 or his cousin Fredric 1823-1895 and concerns the process of proof-reading for a reprint edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1803-1882 Essays. Emerson was Carlyle's particular friend and in a letter to the American essayist dated 29th September 1844 he explains: 'I have visited your Bookseller Chapman; seen the Proof-sheets lying on his table; taken order that the reprint shall be well corrected - indeed I am to read every sheet myself and in that way get acquainted with it before it go into stereotype'. The letter reads as follows: 'Chelsea 4 October 1844 - Dear Sir As this proof is again altogether correct or nearly altogether I think we may abort the method you suggest: pray let me have the perfect copy as the printers call it of the successive sheets beginning with the first; and - your own vigilance continuing unabated - that shall suffice. I have some acquaintance with Serjt Talfourd; but was never at his house nor ever had him here; further I am uncertain whether he is at present in town. However I have now written to an acquaintance we have in common for light as to the matter; and if I find any possibility will certainly call upon him for Emerson's sake: at all events I will as soon as there is any conclusion ether way punctually let you known. Yours truly T. Carlyle' The Serjeant Talfourd referred to above would be the English judge and radical politician Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd 1795-1854. His opinion was sought by Carlyle and Emerson as an expert on English copyright law having introduced the parliamentary bill which later became the Copyright Act of 1842. With accompanying letter of provenance dated 12th September 1955 from David Gould to the American academic Charles Richard Sanderson regarding this Carlyle letter and Sanderson's airmail reply. London, James Frazer, Regent Street, 1840. hardcover
1837ref. 015441London: James Fraser 1837. THREE VOLUMES uniformly bound. Inner dentelles red endpapers. A SIGNED BINDING by Riviere and Sons. French fillet borders with corner rondelles. Spine decorated in gilt. Gilt lettering has faded but can still be read. Top corners just a bit worn several lightly bumped. Please see photos. All three half-titles are present. Volume 1 is subtitled "The Bastille" Volume 2 "The Constitution' and Volume 3 "The Guillotine". One of the greatest treatises written on the french Revolution. See "Printing and the Mind of Man" #304. Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a Scottish historian essayist philosopher in the Victorian era. . First Edition. Lime Green Morocco. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octavo. James Fraser Hardcover books
1837ref. 015441London: James Fraser 1837. THREE VOLUMES uniformly bound. Inner dentelles red endpapers. A SIGNED BINDING by Riviere and Sons. French fillet borders with corner rondelles. Spine decorated in gilt. Gilt lettering has faded but can still be read. Top corners just a bit worn several lightly bumped. Please see photos. All three half-titles are present. Volume 1 is subtitled "The Bastille" Volume 2 "The Constitution' and Volume 3 "The Guillotine". One of the greatest treatises written on the french Revolution. See "Printing and the Mind of Man" #304. Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a Scottish historian essayist philosopher in the Victorian era. . First Edition. Lime Green Morocco. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octavo. James Fraser Hardcover
ref. 001016London: Chapman and Hall Thirty-four volumes complete n.d. c. 1888 - Volumes One to Ten - 'History of Friedrich II of Prussia Called Frederick the Great' viii 458pp; viii 490pp; vii 1 424pp; viii 407pp 1; viii 441pp 1; viii 453pp 1; vii 1 409pp 1; vii 1 393pp 1; vii 1 445pp 1; viii 392pp; Volumes Eleven to Fifteen - 'Cromwell's Letters' xvi 339pp 1; xi 1 344pp; xi 1 325pp 1; xi 1 311pp 1; viii 320pp; Volumes Sixteen to Eighteen - 'Translations From the German' xvi 351pp 1; 8 344pp; 8 419pp 1; Volumes Nineteen to Twenty-Four - 'Essays' 6 412pp; 6 416pp; 6 405pp 1; 6 460pp; 6 444pp; 6 423pp 1; Volumes Twenty-Five to Twenty-Seven - 'French Revolution' ix 1 359pp 1; 8 378pp; vii 440pp; Volume Twenty-Eight - 'Past and Present' vii 1 387pp 1; Volume Twenty-Nine - 'Sartor Resartus' vi 308pp; Volume Thirty - 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' 8 421pp 1; Volume Thirty-One - 'Life of John Sterling' vi 2 342pp; Volume Thirty-Two - 'Life of Friedrich Schiller' viii426pp; Volume Thirty-Three - 'On Heroes Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History' 6 303pp 1 and Volume Thirty-Four - 'Early Kings of Norway and Index' 8 380pp. Contemporary uniform half morocco and marbled paper over boards raised bands spines in six panels author in gilt to second panel sub-titles to fourth panel t.e.g. marbled endpapers. Spines slightly faded minor rubbing to extremities. Internally fairly bright and clean. Tarr notes that 'as supplies of certain volumes were exhausted they were reissued and apparently were arbitrarily either dated or undated. Since the records of Chapman and Hall have been destroyed it is impossible to ascertain the frequency of these reissues or to establish any pattern of dating". Tarr D7. Reprint. Half Morocco and Boards. Good. 8vo. Chapman and Hall Hardcover
ref. 166272Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 1998. Revised Draft script for the 1999 film seen here under the working title "Bond 19." Copy belonging to visual effects technician Brian Smithies with his name in manuscript ink on the first page of the script and his annotations on several script pages denoting scenes utilizing visual effects. Numeric watermark on each script page. During an assignment to protect a late billionaire's daughter from her father's killers James Bond uncovers an international scheme to increase petroleum prices by way of a nuclear disaster. The nineteenth film in the James Bond series and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the titular MI6 agent. Shot on location throughout Spain France Azerbaijan Turkey and the UK. Self wrappers. Title page replaced with a memo revision page dated December 4 1998. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with 16 pink revision pages bound in at the beginning of the script dated December 4 1998. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with light rust near the binding and moderate dampstaining on the first page of the script. Pinewood Studios unknown books
ref. 166272Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 1998. Revised Draft script for the 1999 film seen here under the working title "Bond 19." Copy belonging to visual effects technician Brian Smithies with his name in manuscript ink on the first page of the script and his annotations on several script pages denoting scenes utilizing visual effects. Numeric watermark on each script page. During an assignment to protect a late billionaire's daughter from her father's killers James Bond uncovers an international scheme to increase petroleum prices by way of a nuclear disaster. The nineteenth film in the James Bond series and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the titular MI6 agent. Shot on location throughout Spain France Azerbaijan Turkey and the UK. Self wrappers. Title page replaced with a memo revision page dated December 4 1998. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with 16 pink revision pages bound in at the beginning of the script dated December 4 1998. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with light rust near the binding and moderate dampstaining on the first page of the script. Pinewood Studios unknown
1837ref. 56314London: James Fraser 1837. First Edition in Original Condition The first edition of Carlyle's classic study of the French Revolution complete with all half titles and the integral advertisement leaf in the second volume in its original contemporary binding and with all edges untrimmed. Carlyle arranged his work in three parts the first subtitled "The Bastille" the second part "The Constitution" and the final part "The Guillotine." "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 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 English-speaking world and has outside France moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day" - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN. Copies of Carlyle's work rarely appear in original condition as here. Three volumes. vii404; vii4222; vii448pp. Uniform half brown patterned cloth and drab paper-covered boards printed paper labels. Edges and corners rubbed front joint of second and third volumes partially split labels worn and darkened. Bindings somewhat shaken with all hinges cracked but cords holding strong; occasional gatherings standing proud. Bookplate on each front pastedown minor scattered foxing to first few and last few leaves of each volume. Withal a very good set in contemporary bindings. Untrimmed. In a red half morocco clamshell case spine gilt. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 304. DYER p.85. TARR A8.1. hardcover books
1865ref. 82811865. Engraving of a photograph of the great writer and historian by Elliott and Fry taken approximately 1854. Signed and dated by Carlyle in 1865 as he finished his great work on Frederick the Great. Signed images of Thomas Carlyle are very uncommon this being the first we have carried. unknown books
1837ref. 56314London: James Fraser 1837. First Edition in Original Condition The first edition of Carlyle's classic study of the French Revolution complete with all half titles and the integral advertisement leaf in the second volume in its original contemporary binding and with all edges untrimmed. Carlyle arranged his work in three parts the first subtitled "The Bastille" the second part "The Constitution" and the final part "The Guillotine." "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 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 English-speaking world and has outside France moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day" - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN. Copies of Carlyle's work rarely appear in original condition as here. Three volumes. vii404; vii4222; vii448pp. Uniform half brown patterned cloth and drab paper-covered boards printed paper labels. Edges and corners rubbed front joint of second and third volumes partially split labels worn and darkened. Bindings somewhat shaken with all hinges cracked but cords holding strong; occasional gatherings standing proud. Bookplate on each front pastedown minor scattered foxing to first few and last few leaves of each volume. Withal a very good set in contemporary bindings. Untrimmed. In a red half morocco clamshell case spine gilt. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 304. DYER p.85. TARR A8.1. hardcover
1865ref. 82811865. Engraving of a photograph of the great writer and historian by Elliott and Fry taken approximately 1854. Signed and dated by Carlyle in 1865 as he finished his great work on Frederick the Great. Signed images of Thomas Carlyle are very uncommon this being the first we have carried. unknown
1850ref. 165074London: Chapman and Hall 1850. Inscribed to his "glorious queen" First edition in book form a major presentation copy to one of the key figures in Carlyle's life inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the literary hostess Harriet Mary Baring Baroness Ashburton: "The Lady Ashburton: 25 Dec 1850: - T.C.". Of aristocratic lineage Ashburton 1805-1857 married into the Baring banking dynasty and "established one of the foremost literary salons in the country gathering around her such men of letters as Richard Monckton Milnes A. H. Clough Charles Buller Sydney Smith William Makepeace Thackeray and pre-eminently Thomas Carlyle. To Carlyle she was a 'glorious Queen' the 'lamp of my dark path'" ODNB Lady Ashburton. Carlyle first met Ashburton in late 1839 and maintained a correspondence for many years. She was a major intellectual stimulus to him and he frequently visited her grand residences Bath House in Piccadilly and The Grange in Hampshire. The relationship was surely non-romantic but caused much misery to Carlyle's wife Jane who felt increasingly spurned by Carlyle as he turned to Ashburton for company and intellectual fulfilment. "Jane's resentment was understandable since the attraction struck at her union with Carlyle by robbing her of the 'genius' who had come to dominate any society in which they found themselves and on whose achievements she had staked so much. Lady Harriet enjoyed her role as literary lion tamer and felt an affection for her greatest capture; and bizarre as it may seem Carlyle was bemused by her and delighted in an almost rapturous correspondence. Between the three of them there were times of steady friendship punctuated by jealous outbreaks when Lady Harriet's letters were clearly unwelcome at Cheyne Row. It dragged on because Jane Carlyle generally fought down her feelings while Carlyle was unwilling to give up his circle of acquaintances with the Ashburtons including many of his closest friends" ODNB Jane Carlyle. Latter-Day Pamphlets presented Carlyle's views on various political and social questions in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848 and his visit to Ireland during the Great Famine. It marked the culmination of years of increasingly controversial public statements constituting "a shriek of satiric and Swiftian despair" ODNB Thomas Carlyle against modernity democracy and materialism. The work was first issued as eight pamphlets from February to August 1850 and published in book form in the month of completion. Given the date of inscription Carlyle evidently presented the volume as a Christmas gift. Lady Ashburton did not keep the volume long and appears not to have read it as it remains largely unopened. She soon re-presented the volume inscribing below Carlyle's inscription "General Radowitz from H. M. Ashburton The Grange Jan. 11th 1851". The Prussian general and statesman Joseph Maria von Radowitz 1797-1853 who was then in England and dined with the queen later that month was a prominent proponent of German unification under Prussian leadership and a close adviser of Crown Prince Frederick William. Lady Ashburton later tried to arrange a meeting with Carlyle and Radowitz while the former was in Germany but Radowitz did not attempt it. Carlyle wrote somewhat petulantly "I expected some movement from Radowitz. in these parts; but there has nothing whatever of the kind taken place: which on the whole has been a convenience to me rather than otherwise; Radowitz except as a sight and not much as that being completely nothing to me or even less in this pressure of persons" letter from Carlyle to Jane 8 October 1852 accessible on Carlyle Letters Online. Octavo. Dark green fine diaper grain cloth binding A binder's ticket of Bone & Son to rear pastedown spine lettered in gilt spine and covers with blind floral blocking yellow endpapers. Housed in custom red quarter morocco box. Bookplate to front pastedown of H. & C. Michaelis dated 1902. Loss at head of spine and split at head of joints still all holding front inner hinge neatly repaired rear inner hinge splitting. A presentable copy with the contents almost entirely unopened. Tarr A21.1.c hardcover
ref. 61321London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1814. French-to-English Dictionary EX LIBRIS JANE CARLYLE INSCRIBED BY THOMAS CARLYLE with an autograph letter from Alexander Carlyle tracing the provenance. A New Revised edition. Duodecimo in half-sheets 17 x 11cm pp.2 40 unpaginated. Black ink ownership of Jane Ballie Welsh Haddington to flyleaf. Further black ink inscription from Thomas Carlyle also to flyleaf: 'To William Fingland Thornhill: T.C. Templand 29 March 1842.' Also with an autograph letter dated 28th February 1924 on headed note-paper from Alexander Carlyle 1843-1931 nephew of Thomas loosely inserted. Contemporary brown morocco recently rehinged and repaired to spine with gilt titles to red label. Housed in a fleece-line orange buckram-covered slipcase. Bookplate of James Fingland son of the recipient William Fingland to front pastedown. Clean and complete with a touch of light occasional spotting. Wear to boards and spine now carefully restored to an attractive robust condition. Very good. Alexander Carlyle who acted as his uncle's chief advocate on the public stage after his death in 1881 building a formidable archive of correspondence later gifted to the National Library of Scotland here deftly unravels the provenance of this French dictionary: Gifted by Thomas just after the death of his mother-in-law Grace at her home in Templand near Dumfries in March 1842 to "a poor boy of Dr. Russell's whom she Mrs. Welsh liked who staid here three nights when one of her miserable servants failed a Tardy's Dictionary and an old Livy; I remembered the Tardy and thought a charitable orphan heart best deserved it. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 unknown
1889ref. 6403London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co 1889. Fine. 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. 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'. The Scottish author critic and thinker Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a major influence on Victorian society. His novel Sartor Resartus translated as The Tailor Re-tailored among other variations is a satirical look at the work of a fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. Intriguing in its form the book is structured from the prospective of a skeptical English reviewer consumed by Teufelsdröckh's book Clothes Their Origin and Influence. In crafting Sartor Resartus Carlyle drew on a range of literary influences: Goethe Hegel Sterne and Switft. Carlyle's complicated text not only critiques academic writing and materialism but offers meditations on the meanings of symbols and the search for truth. Although first started as an essay the project eventually developed into a novel which was first published serially in Fraser's Magazine 1833-34. Fine. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co unknown books
1907ref. 140947580Hammersmith London: Doves Press 1907. Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 315 copies. 341 1 pp. Bound in publisher's limp vellum with spine lettered in gilt. Printed in black and red by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Very Good. Covers curled with red spotted staining to rear cover and light foxing to fore edge. Bookplate of famed bibliophile Decherd Turner 1922-2002 on the front free endpaper with transfer mark from previously pasted bookseller's ticket at front pastedown. A stunning Doves Press production of Carlyle's comic novel first printed serially in Fraser's Magazine from 1833 to 1834. The Scottish essayist and historian had intended this to be a new kind of novel with varying paradoxical themes that intertwined fact and fiction speculation seriousness and satire. The book is a parody of German Idealism and of Hegel in particular. Books printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity "dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type the excellence of the layout and the perfection of the presswork" Cave 147. They reflect Cobden-Sanderson's passion for the "ideal book" in its entirety. Doves imprints are scarce because when the press closed in 1913 Cobden-Sanderson cast all the type off the Hammersmith Bridge into the Thames- to remain "untouched for other use" Ransom 59. Ransom Doves 13. Doves Press unknown books
1874ref. 3586London: 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. Occupying approximately 51 1/2 inches 131 cm. of shelf space. 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. "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
1889ref. 6403London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co 1889. Fine. 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. 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'. The Scottish author critic and thinker Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a major influence on Victorian society. His novel Sartor Resartus translated as The Tailor Re-tailored among other variations is a satirical look at the work of a fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. Intriguing in its form the book is structured from the prospective of a skeptical English reviewer consumed by Teufelsdröckh's book Clothes Their Origin and Influence. In crafting Sartor Resartus Carlyle drew on a range of literary influences: Goethe Hegel Sterne and Switft. Carlyle's complicated text not only critiques academic writing and materialism but offers meditations on the meanings of symbols and the search for truth. Although first started as an essay the project eventually developed into a novel which was first published serially in Fraser's Magazine 1833-34. Fine. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co unknown
1907ref. 140947580Hammersmith London: Doves Press 1907. Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 315 copies. 341 1 pp. Bound in publisher's limp vellum with spine lettered in gilt. Printed in black and red by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Very Good. Covers curled with red spotted staining to rear cover and light foxing to fore edge. Bookplate of famed bibliophile Decherd Turner 1922-2002 on the front free endpaper with transfer mark from previously pasted bookseller's ticket at front pastedown. A stunning Doves Press production of Carlyle's comic novel first printed serially in Fraser's Magazine from 1833 to 1834. The Scottish essayist and historian had intended this to be a new kind of novel with varying paradoxical themes that intertwined fact and fiction speculation seriousness and satire. The book is a parody of German Idealism and of Hegel in particular. Books printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity "dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type the excellence of the layout and the perfection of the presswork" Cave 147. They reflect Cobden-Sanderson's passion for the "ideal book" in its entirety. Doves imprints are scarce because when the press closed in 1913 Cobden-Sanderson cast all the type off the Hammersmith Bridge into the Thames- to remain "untouched for other use" Ransom 59. Ransom Doves 13. Doves Press unknown
1874ref. 3586London: 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. Occupying approximately 51 1/2 inches 131 cm. of shelf space. 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. "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
1880ref. 179594London: 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 very good set. The Library Edition. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1880ref. 179594London: 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 very good set. The Library Edition. Chapman and Hall unknown
