Reminiscences
1881réf. 1246731881. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1881. 2 vols. 8vo xi 3 338; vi 341 pp. Frontispiece. Finely bound without the ads in half calf and marbled boards backstrips gilt-tooled marbled endpapers top edges gilt. Bindings a little scuffed but respectable scattered foxing bookplates depicting an angler after Thomas Bewick of Richard Ormond of Tynemouth in each volume. § First edition published a month after Carlyle's death and scandalous at the time for the candor with which he ruminated on his poor treatment of his wife Jane. The bookplate is after Thomas Bewick signed "C.Naish" and was #187 in the Grolier Club catalogue of an exhibition of angling bookplates held June 6 to September 7 1918. unknown books
