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1837rif. 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
1865rif. 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
1865rif. 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
1850rif. 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
rif. 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
1889rif. 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
1889rif. 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
1907rif. 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
1874rif. 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
1907rif. 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
1874rif. 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
1880rif. 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
1880rif. 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
rif. 337133London: doves press. hardcover. near fine. 8 blank ;4 5-341 1 10 blankpp. Printed in red and black. Large 8vo Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown crushed morocco with watered silk textured end-papers 5 raised bands gilt decoration & dentelles top edge gilt London: The Doves Press 1907. Near fine in a cloth slipcase. Beautifully printed book. One of 300 copies printed on paper of a total of 315. doves press unknown
rif. 337133London: doves press. hardcover. near fine. 8 blank ;4 5-341 1 10 blankpp. Printed in red and black. Large 8vo Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown crushed morocco with watered silk textured end-papers 5 raised bands gilt decoration & dentelles top edge gilt London: The Doves Press 1907. Near fine in a cloth slipcase. Beautifully printed book. One of 300 copies printed on paper of a total of 315. doves press unknown books
1898rif. ST20842Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press 1898. ONE OF 525 COPIES on paper and 12 on vellum. 210 x 150 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". 4 p.l. including two blanks 70 pp. 1 leaf colophon. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES of "Pysche Borne off by Zephyrus" ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM MORRIS elaborate borders around this and first page of text designed and cut by Morris large decorative woodcut initials device on last page of text and one full-page woodcut of ornaments used in the Kelmscott edition of "Love is Enough." Printed in red and black in Golden Troy and Chaucer types. With errata slip laid in at title page. Front pastedown with Arts & Crafts-style bookplate of Edmund Bulkley dated 1893; a list of the Kelmscott books in E. W. Buckley's collection listed by the number assigned to them in this book recorded in pencil on a translucent piece of paper laid in here. Morris & Cockerell 53; Peterson A-53; Ransom 53; Tomkinson p. 121. Some wear to lower corners just a hint of soil to covers otherwise a very fine copy--exceptionally fresh clean and bright internally. Owned by two collectors with a special interest in Morris this is a very pleasing copy of one of the key Kelmscott Press books and the last one to be issued by the press. Morris tells us here about his admiration for 15th century printed books saying that "they were always beautiful by force of the mere typography even without the added ornament with which many of them are so lavishly supplied." And he says that "it was the essence of his undertaking to produce books which it would be a pleasure to look upon as pieces of printing and arrangement of type." This is the most important contemporaneous source of comment on the founding operation and publications of the Kelmscott Press. Peterson quotes Newdigate who says that this is "one of the three books that every student of English book-production ought to read." The original owner here was American private press collector Edmund Bulkley who according to the list laid in at the rear of this volume owned 42 Kelmscott books. Evidently prepared after Bulkley's death the list also marks with a "0" the books sold before 1950 and notes at the end the books including this volume that remained in the possession of "M A B B." this might refer to a relation possibly art collector M. A. B. Bulkley who bequeathed a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1996. Bulkley's distinctive bookplate perhaps created by one of the private presses is found in a number of press books which when listed at auction are in notably fine condition. In 1883 Morris & Company took out a full-page ad in the Official Catalogue of the Boston Foreign Exhibition announcing the appointment of Elliott & Bulkley of 42 East 14th Street New York City as U.S. agents for the sale of Morris & Co. "Decorative Manufactures" including wallpaper fabrics and "the celebrated Hammersmith carpets made only by Morris & Company." It is tempting to speculate that Edmund Bulkley was associated with this firm and became aware of the Kelmscott Press via this connection with Morris & Company. Although without additional signs of ownership our book was later sold as part of the library of Clive Wilmer 1945-2025 English poet and scholar of John Ruskin and William Morris. He wrote and lectured extensively on both men and from 2009 to 2019 served as Master of The Guild of St. George a charity for arts crafts and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in 1871. The Ruskin Society of North America presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Copies of this work appear with some regularity in the marketplace but specimens in attractive condition are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Kelmscott Press unknown
1898rif. ST20842Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press 1898. ONE OF 525 COPIES on paper and 12 on vellum. 210 x 150 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". 4 p.l. including two blanks 70 pp. 1 leaf colophon. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES of "Pysche Borne off by Zephyrus" ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM MORRIS elaborate borders around this and first page of text designed and cut by Morris large decorative woodcut initials device on last page of text and one full-page woodcut of ornaments used in the Kelmscott edition of "Love is Enough." Printed in red and black in Golden Troy and Chaucer types. With errata slip laid in at title page. Front pastedown with Arts & Crafts-style bookplate of Edmund Bulkley dated 1893; a list of the Kelmscott books in E. W. Buckley's collection listed by the number assigned to them in this book recorded in pencil on a translucent piece of paper laid in here. Morris & Cockerell 53; Peterson A-53; Ransom 53; Tomkinson p. 121. Some wear to lower corners just a hint of soil to covers otherwise a very fine copy--exceptionally fresh clean and bright internally. Owned by two collectors with a special interest in Morris this is a very pleasing copy of one of the key Kelmscott Press books and the last one to be issued by the press. Morris tells us here about his admiration for 15th century printed books saying that "they were always beautiful by force of the mere typography even without the added ornament with which many of them are so lavishly supplied." And he says that "it was the essence of his undertaking to produce books which it would be a pleasure to look upon as pieces of printing and arrangement of type." This is the most important contemporaneous source of comment on the founding operation and publications of the Kelmscott Press. Peterson quotes Newdigate who says that this is "one of the three books that every student of English book-production ought to read." The original owner here was American private press collector Edmund Bulkley who according to the list laid in at the rear of this volume owned 42 Kelmscott books. Evidently prepared after Bulkley's death the list also marks with a "0" the books sold before 1950 and notes at the end the books including this volume that remained in the possession of "M A B B." this might refer to a relation possibly art collector M. A. B. Bulkley who bequeathed a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1996. Bulkley's distinctive bookplate perhaps created by one of the private presses is found in a number of press books which when listed at auction are in notably fine condition. In 1883 Morris & Company took out a full-page ad in the Official Catalogue of the Boston Foreign Exhibition announcing the appointment of Elliott & Bulkley of 42 East 14th Street New York City as U.S. agents for the sale of Morris & Co. "Decorative Manufactures" including wallpaper fabrics and "the celebrated Hammersmith carpets made only by Morris & Company." It is tempting to speculate that Edmund Bulkley was associated with this firm and became aware of the Kelmscott Press via this connection with Morris & Company. Although without additional signs of ownership our book was later sold as part of the library of Clive Wilmer 1945-2025 English poet and scholar of John Ruskin and William Morris. He wrote and lectured extensively on both men and from 2009 to 2019 served as Master of The Guild of St. George a charity for arts crafts and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in 1871. The Ruskin Society of North America presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Copies of this work appear with some regularity in the marketplace but specimens in attractive condition are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Kelmscott Press unknown books
1837rif. 219681London: James Fraser 1837. First edition first printing. Bound by The Club Bindery in full red crushed morocco marbled endpapers teg. french fillet border front boards spine titled and gilt in compartments with floral centerpieces lavish inner dentelles binding signed by The Club Bindery 1908. A few surface nicks to boards some sparse spots of foxing a uniformly fine set. Duodecimo. 404; 422 2 ads; 448pp. 7.75" x 4.75" HISTORIOGRAPHY REDEFINED Before Thomas Carlyle English historiography lent itself to dry documentary narration over literary vitality. With The French Revolution Carlyle chronicled the death of Louis XV through the fall of Robespierre and the aftermath of the Terror in vivid near novelistic prose bringing presence and emotion to one of the most important periods in European History. Published in an edition of just 1000 copies The French Revolution was not an immediate success. However its reputation steadily grew in Britain and America and its delayed success allowed for the publication of Carlyle's later masterpieces. Carlyle's engaging narrative style made The French Revolution one of the defining historical works of the Victorian era influencing writers such as John Ruskin Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Dickens who kept a copy close at hand while writing A Tale of Two Cities. The copy presented here is a finely bound first edition from the library of Robert Hoe 1839-1911---cofounder of The Club Bindery and the first president of the Grollier Club--each copy retaining his extravegant red morocco ex libris bookplate. Dyer 85. James Fraser unknown
1880rif. 135178London: 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. Chapman and Hall unknown
1880rif. 135178London: 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. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1907rif. ST20299London: The Doves Press 1907. ONE OF 300 COPIES printed on paper and 15 on vellum. 235 x 165 mm. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2". 341 1 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO IN THE STYLE OF THE DOVES BINDERY counterfeit signature stamped and dated 1907 to the rear turn-in covers simply framed by two plain gilt rules raised bands spine compartments with rose window designs formed by six open ovals accented with dots encircled by two gilt rules with low platforms and dots above and below gilt titling turn-ins gilt-ruled and with cornerpieces of open ovals dots and gouge work all edges gilt and gauffered with two rows of tiny dots. Initials designed by Edward Johnston. Printed in red and black. Pastedown with the bookplate of Helen and Michael Oppenheimer. Tidcombe DP-13. For the binding: Tidcombe p. 464. Spine a little sunned just a trace of soiling to leather the usual offsetting from the facing turn-ins on the front and rear free endpaper a hint of yellowing to quire b but still fine the text otherwise pristine and the binding unworn and lustrous. This is one of the 26 intriguing and obviously uncommon examples Tidcombe has identified as forged or imitation Doves bindings a group of handsomely executed volumes that continue to be mysterious. Tidcombe differentiates between forgeries those books that are stamp-signed with "C - S" and a date as here on the one hand and unsigned "copies of Doves bindings or bindings in the Doves style" on the other. But she treats them as one group "because they have several features in common." For example signed or unsigned all of the suspect bindings cover Doves Press books all are bound in dark blue morocco and all have a signature pallet with the letters "E" and "S" close together. Although Tidcombe suggests that the person responsible for the forged Doves bindings could possibly have been the former Doves Bindery finisher Charles McLeish she does not settle on him or any other likely candidate. Whoever was behind them the volumes in this puzzling group of bindings--like other forgeries and imitations of historically important cultural artifacts--are actively collected for their value as counterfeits. And as with other counterfeits the present binding is a kind of implicit homage in this case to the outstanding work done by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery--our spurious binding would not have been worth undertaking were the objects it mirrored not so universally recognized as worthy of imitation. The text here is an uncategorizable work reminiscent of satires by Swift and Sterne in its fictitious biography of Teufelsdroeckh i.e. "devil's dung" Professor of Things in General at the University of Weissnichtwo "Know-not-where". Day calls it "an intellectual and spiritual autobiography and a diatribe against current conditions in England" that advocates a reorganization of society and its institutions so that "Brotherhood and the duty to work usefully will grip mankind's true leaders and assure a theocracy a reborn humanity ruled by the divine spirit within." Our volume was formerly in the collection of fine private press books owned by the distinguished scholars Sir Michael Oppenheimer 1924-2020 and his wife Lady Helen Oppenheimer 1926-2022; he was an Oxford lecturer in politics and history she an Anglican theologian whose groundbreaking work on ethics helped reform the church's position on remarriage of divorced persons. The Doves Press unknown
1907rif. ST20299London: The Doves Press 1907. ONE OF 300 COPIES printed on paper and 15 on vellum. 235 x 165 mm. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2". 341 1 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO IN THE STYLE OF THE DOVES BINDERY counterfeit signature stamped and dated 1907 to the rear turn-in covers simply framed by two plain gilt rules raised bands spine compartments with rose window designs formed by six open ovals accented with dots encircled by two gilt rules with low platforms and dots above and below gilt titling turn-ins gilt-ruled and with cornerpieces of open ovals dots and gouge work all edges gilt and gauffered with two rows of tiny dots. Initials designed by Edward Johnston. Printed in red and black. Pastedown with the bookplate of Helen and Michael Oppenheimer. Tidcombe DP-13. For the binding: Tidcombe p. 464. Spine a little sunned just a trace of soiling to leather the usual offsetting from the facing turn-ins on the front and rear free endpaper a hint of yellowing to quire b but still fine the text otherwise pristine and the binding unworn and lustrous. This is one of the 26 intriguing and obviously uncommon examples Tidcombe has identified as forged or imitation Doves bindings a group of handsomely executed volumes that continue to be mysterious. Tidcombe differentiates between forgeries those books that are stamp-signed with "C - S" and a date as here on the one hand and unsigned "copies of Doves bindings or bindings in the Doves style" on the other. But she treats them as one group "because they have several features in common." For example signed or unsigned all of the suspect bindings cover Doves Press books all are bound in dark blue morocco and all have a signature pallet with the letters "E" and "S" close together. Although Tidcombe suggests that the person responsible for the forged Doves bindings could possibly have been the former Doves Bindery finisher Charles McLeish she does not settle on him or any other likely candidate. Whoever was behind them the volumes in this puzzling group of bindings--like other forgeries and imitations of historically important cultural artifacts--are actively collected for their value as counterfeits. And as with other counterfeits the present binding is a kind of implicit homage in this case to the outstanding work done by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery--our spurious binding would not have been worth undertaking were the objects it mirrored not so universally recognized as worthy of imitation. The text here is an uncategorizable work reminiscent of satires by Swift and Sterne in its fictitious biography of Teufelsdroeckh i.e. "devil's dung" Professor of Things in General at the University of Weissnichtwo "Know-not-where". Day calls it "an intellectual and spiritual autobiography and a diatribe against current conditions in England" that advocates a reorganization of society and its institutions so that "Brotherhood and the duty to work usefully will grip mankind's true leaders and assure a theocracy a reborn humanity ruled by the divine spirit within." Our volume was formerly in the collection of fine private press books owned by the distinguished scholars Sir Michael Oppenheimer 1924-2020 and his wife Lady Helen Oppenheimer 1926-2022; he was an Oxford lecturer in politics and history she an Anglican theologian whose groundbreaking work on ethics helped reform the church's position on remarriage of divorced persons. The Doves Press unknown books
1796rif. ABC_48589Cambridge: Printed by John Burges printer to the university 1796. Contemporary brown calf with a later spine a dark red morocco title-label on the spine with the title and author lettered in gold marbled endpapers. 4to. With an engraved sheet with musical notation. 2 parts in 1 volume. First edition of this beautiful example of Orientalist scholarship presenting sixty early Arabic poems in their original language with English translations. This work by Orientalist Joseph Dacre Carlyle 1758-1804 enabled the English to discover the beauty of Arabic literature. The poems which cover a wide range of topics offer a glimpse into the rich cultural heritage of the Arab world. Carlyle was the first to translate these poems into English. His translations became quite well-known and continued to be used in other works until at least the late 19th century.The work is a collection of poems from the Arabian peninsula between the 6th and 13th century. It includes a poem written on the tomb of Sayid by Abd Almalec Alharithy dates unknown a poem on avarice by Hatim al-Tai -578 and a poem about a thunder storm by Ibrahim Ben Khiret Abou Isaac dates unknown. In addition to the poems themselves the work also provides some biographical information about the poets offering readers a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural context in which the poems were written. The work consists of two parts the first contains the poems in English and the second in Arabic.Carlyle was professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. He was appointed chaplain by Thomas Bruce Lord Elgin 1766-1841 to the embassy at Constantinople in 1799 and pursued his researches in Eastern literature in a tour through Asia Minor Palestine Greece and Italy. During his travels he collected several valuable Greek and Syriac manuscripts.The work has been rebacked the leather on the boards is dried and cracked the flyleaf in the back has been replaced by a different marbled paper. The work is somewhat browned throughout with mild foxing on the first few leaves annotations in pencil on page 12 and 80. Otherwise in good condition.l BMC 4 1258.1197; Graesse II p. 49. Printed by John Burges printer to the university, unknown
1896rif. 3445London: Chapman and Hall Limited 1896. The Centenary Edition Large Paper Edition Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. The Centenary Edition Large Paper Edition Limited Edition. Leather Bound. 30 vol. Thomas Carlyle The Works of Thomas Carlyle. The Centenary Edition Large Paper Edition Limited Edition limited to 300 sets of which this is no. 274. Illustrated frontispiece of Louis XVI of France. Illustrated throughout. Top edges gilt raised bands on spine. Bound in full brown Morocco leather with elaborate gilt floral embellishments on front and back covers and beautiful gilt floral embellishments on spine panels. Beautiful leather and silk doublures on inner covers. Published London: Chapman and Hall Limited 1896. H: 8 7/8" W: 6 1/4" D: 1 1/2 Chapman and Hall Limited unknown
1778rif. 152780Edinburgh: J. Dickson 1778. First edition second issue "a re-issue of the London edition of the same year with a cancel title page and the addition of a postscript dated: Lincoln's Inn July 20th 1778" ESTC this copy also retaining the London title page. "This discussion of the bill for extending the militia law of Scotland introduced in 1776 contains a number of passing references to the war in America" Adams. The postscript comments on Burgoyne's defeat. Carlyle is identified as author in a contemporary hand on the Edinburgh title. After studies at Edinburgh Glasgow and Leiden where his classmates included William Robertson Adam Ferguson and John Home Carlyle was licensed to preach in 1746 and was introduced to the parish of Inveresk some five miles south-east of Edinburgh by the duke of Buccleuch the following year receiving his ordination in 1748. A moderate in his support for ecclesiastical patronage and politically conservative issues as well as in his endorsement of Enlightenment cultural principles including liberal education polite learning and religious toleration Carlyle was a familiar figure in the cultural life of what has come to be known as the Scottish Enlightenment. Strong and outspoken in his support for the Scots militia cause having written in 1760 The Question relating to a Scots Militia Considered the present pamphlet attacks Smith's apparent opposition to militias in the Wealth of Nations citing passages from Smith's book and also referring to the opinions of the Encyclopedistes. The other pamphlets included in this volume are: DOUGLAS John William Pulteney and Junius attributed authors. A Letter addressed to two Great Men on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negotiation. London: Millar and A. Kincaid & J. Bell Edinburgh 1760. Howes 6095. DALRYMPLE Sir John. The Rights of Great Britain asserted against the Claims of America: being an answer to the declaration of the General Congress. The third edition with additions. London: T. Cadell 1776. Howes 2564. LIND John. An Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress. The fourth edition. London: T. Cadell J. Walter and T. Sewell 1776. Howes 6167. TOWNSHEND Charles. Remarks on the Letter addressed to two Great Men. I a Letter to the author of that piece. London: printed in the year 1760. Howes 10372. Manuscript attribution to Henry Lord Holland on title. Octavo 209 x 122 mm. Bound fourth with four other pamphlets related to American affairs in contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards vellum tips spine ruled gilt in compartments red morocco label lettered "Pamphlets" and numbered 2 direct sprinkled edges. Ownership inscription "Binning" to front pastedown dated 1779 with a manuscript list of the volume's contents to front free endpaper. Short tear to head of front joint; a very good copy. Adams The American Controversy 78-56b variant; ESTC T179898 locating copies at the National Library of Scotland and Harvard Business School only. The London imprint ESTC T107064 is slightly more common with copies located at British Library Columbia Harvard JCB and the New York Historical Society only; Vanderblue p. 50. hardcover
