Sales catalogue 588: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/131
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 588: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Car.yLe (Thomas): Booxs From uis Lisrary—continued. [183] EMERSON (Ralph Waldo). Essays; Second Series. First Encuish Eprrion. Post 8vo. Original cloth. London, 1844. | #2 12s bd A presentation copy with contemporary inscription (not in Emerson’s hand) “Thos. Carlyle Esq. with the kind regards of his friend, R. W. Emerson.” With Carlyle’s bookplate in cover. [184] GOETHE’S KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN; beschrieben von Ch. Schuchardt. 3 vols., 12mo. Cloth. Jena, 1848. 14s With bookplate of Thomas Carlyle in each volume. GoETHE’s WEDDING GIFT To CARLYLE. [185] GOETHE. Werke, “ erzrer Hann” edition. 55 volumes in 26, 12mo. Half calf. A WeEppING PrEsENT FROM GOETHE TO THE CARLYLES, with inscription by Goethe in the first volume :— “Dem werthen Ehpaare Carlisle fiir freundliche Theilnahm schoenstens danckbar. | Goethe. Weimar, May 1827.” (Each volume contains CartyLe’s bookplate). Together with THE ORIGINAL BLACK WOODEN BOX, with raised classical figures (size 9 X 9 X 9% inches), in which Goethe enclosed (with other presents) the first five volumes of the above edition of his Works. £98 This box, with its original contents, was described by Thomas Carlyle in a letter to his mother, dated Aug. 11th, 1827:— “The daintiest boxie you ever saw! So carefully packed, so neatly and tastefully contrived in everything. There was a copy of Goethe’s Poems in five beautiful little volumes for the valued marriage pair Carlyle, two other little books for myself, and lastly the prettiest wrought iron necklace for my dear Spouse.... I believe a ribbon with the Order of the Garter would scarcely have flattered either of us more.” Included in the box is GOETHE’S FAUST “neue Auflage” Stuttgart, 1825, which formed part of the present as mentioned by Carlyle in the above letter. Accompanying this present are copies in Carlyle’s hand of three long letters from Goethe to Carlyle (dated 30th Oct., 1824, July 20th, 1827, and April 13th, 1830). These were written out by Carlyle in ordinary script, so that Mrs. Carlyle, who could not read the German script, could understand them. The second of these letters (July 20th, 1827) was the one written by Goethe when sending this wedding-present. At the foot of this letter Carlyle adds the note :— “The whole present is one of the most tasteful, and to me as precious as any such present can possibly be. T. Carlyle, roth August, 1827.”
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