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Sartor Resartus; The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

1838rif. 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

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Sartor Resartus; The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

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Letters and Memorials

1883rif. 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

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Letters and Memorials

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Autograph letter signed "T. Carlyle" to John Sterling

1836rif. 3467031836. Bifolium 2 pp. 8vo. Old folds wax seal remnants very good. Bifolium 2 pp. 8vo. Carlyle writes to John Sterling 1806-1844 for an account of his - famously poor - health offering the help of his wife and quoting from Goethe. Sterling was a Scottish author. A follower of Coleridge he was entrusted to edit his unpublished theological writings. Carlyle much admired Sterling's anonymously-published novel set during the French Revolution Arthur Coningsby 1832 and first met Sterling in person at John Stuart Mill's office in February 1835. In October 1839 Mill published Sterling's a controversial essay on Carlyle. They carried on a correspondence from the time they met until the end of Sterling's short life. Carlyle and Julius Hare were put in joint care of Sterling's papers and Hare published Essays and Tales in 1848 but Carlyle was upset with how it turned out and published his Life of John Sterling in 1851 using most of their correspondence in a highly edited form ODNB. Henry James Sr. who visited Sterling near the end of his life on the Isle of Wight called him "a perfectly delightful man just the antipodes of Carlyle and the only man Carlyle had any sincere attachment to" Boston Sunday Herald 17 April 1881. The full text of the letter: Chelsea Saturday Morning My dear Sterling - If it will not hurt you to write pray send me a little Bulletin with your own hand. I hear nothing but more or less contradictory accounts the average of which is a vague statu-quo. Your Doctors undoubtedly have done well to seclude you; this I must say tho' I suffer by it like others. If at any hour it become medically permissible for you to be talked to pray send me word. But above all things mein Lieher get fast well again. We miss you terribly; it is many long years since I in particular saw a face like yours. Courage Hoffnung und Ergebung! Die Zukunjt decket - Schmerzen und Gliicke. Dock ungeschrecket - Dringen wir vorwdrts I am to be at your Father's to-night seeking my Wife: the answer to this cannot come by post till Monday. Jane bids me say "If there were anything in the world she could do! She is the most disengaged woman in London at present." I believe the message is sincere to the fullest extent. God bless you and keep you my dear Friend! Yours brüderlich T. Carlyle. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle Vol. 1 London: John Lane 1904 p. 1-2 unknown