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Hard Cover; Cloth/Gilt Titles. Condizione: Good/Light Edgewear. No Jacket. Wih Numerous Illustrations. Copyright MCMIX, (1909) 448 Deckled Pages. Hard covered. No dust jacket. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Text is clean, tight and bright. Prev.owners name on f.e.p. Some light edgewear and bumped corners. Spine is sun-faded a bit. Oversized; cannot fit in a flat rate envelope, requires a box to ship. From Wikipedia. Private life Carlyle had a number of would-be romances before he married Jane Welsh, important as a literary figure in her own right. The most notable were with Margaret Gordon, a pupil of his friend Edward Irving. Even after he met Jane, he became enamoured of Kitty Kirkpatrick, the daughter of a British officer and an Indian princess. William Dalrymple, author of White Mughals, suggests that feelings were mutual, but social circumstances made the marriage impossible, as Carlyle was then poor. Both Margaret and Kitty have been suggested as the original of "Blumine", Teufelsdröch's beloved, in Sartor Resartus.[7][8] Marriage Carlyle married Jane Welsh in 1826, making the marriage one of the most famous, well documented, and unhappy of literary unions. Over 9000 letters between Carlyle and his wife have been published showing the couple had an affection for one another marred by frequent and angry quarrels.[5] It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four. -Samuel Butler Carlyle became increasingly alienated from his wife. Although she had been an invalid for some time, her death (1866) came unexpectedly and plunged him into despair, during which he wrote his highly self-critical "Reminiscences of Jane Welsh Carlyle", published posthumously.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1973 near fine hardback in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed. No inscription. Price clipped. 318 pages with index of persons and index of books. Chronology. Illustrations. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First edition. Good red Hardcover has bumped corners and spine ends, foxed end pages, no dustwrapper.

Condizione: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xii] 354 printed pages of text with monochrome tissue guarded frontispiece and monochrome portrait facing page 274. Spine ends and corners turned in, age darkened closed page edges, ghosting to the end papers, pencilled marking to the front free end paper and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First American edition. Two volume set. Gilt-stamped red cloth with beveled edges, top edges gilt. Illustrated. Introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. Spines lightly faded, modest edgewear, a very good to near fine set.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 9in. xliv. 400pp.; xxxvii. 448pp. 18 plates (2 in color). Bond in recent three quarters calf over cloth covered boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt titling and ruling. Marbled endpapers. Top text-block edges are gilt. Both volumes are in VERY GOOD condition showing marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, spine with several very small scuffs, a hint of toning, otherwise the bindings remain strong and tight, the text-blocks are clean and exceptionally unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. 12mo, Red boards with gilt letters and graphics. Gifted on third free page 'To John A. Carlyle with kind remembrances of Brother Alick, Edinburgh, April 1904. FIRST EDITION. The rear hinge is ninety percent torn but the webbing is intact. There is a four inch tear on the fold of the rear spine. 326 pages.By Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, Red boards with gilt letters, graphics and top edge. There are sixteen illustrations. FIRST EDITION. The frontis has the tissue intact. An introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. 360 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. T-Carlhs.

Condizione: Good. Second edition. Both vols have fading/watermarks to outer edges and corners. Shelf wear to extremities of both. Both have previous owner details on flysheet. One plate loose in vol I. Tannign an fxoign throughout. Contents all legible.