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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    CaryLe (Thomas)—continued. [203] LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. First Epirion. THE Compiere Ser oF Ericur Orictnat Parts, in the wrappers as issued. 8vo. Enclosed in a buckram case. London, Chapman and Hail, 1850. } £10 10s [204] THE LIFE OF JOHN STERLING. First Epirion. Post 8vo. Original cloth. London, 1851. H14 14s A Presentation Copy, with the author’s inscription on half title. “To the Lady Stanley of Alderley, with many kind regards. T. C. Chelsea, 18th Oct., 1851.” [205] OCCASIONAL DISCOURSE ON THE NIGGER QUESTION. First Epition. Post 8vo. Original wrappers. London, 1853. $2. 28 PRESENTATION Copy OF THE First EDITION. [2c6| ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY. Six Lectures. First Epirion. Post 8vo. Contemporary half calf. London, James Fraser, 1841. £24 10s A remarkably interesting copy, being presented by Thomas Carlyle to Mrs. Strachey, with signed autograph inscription :— “To Mrs. Strachey, with affection and regard. T. Carlyle, London Nov. 8, 1841.” Accompanying the volume is the original small 4to printed prospectus of the Lectures, with MS. (probably in the publisher’s hand) of the particulars of advertising and the account of the sale of tickets. Also on another piece of notepaper, and in Carlyle’s autograph, is a list of his friends to whom invitation tickets were to be sent, sixteen in all, among which are the names of Sterling, Forster, Mazzini, Thackeray, Hunt, Hone, and others. Included also is one of the original admission tickets to the Lectures, signed by Thomas Carlyle. The whole enclosed in a buckram book-shaped case. [207] SHOOTING NIAGARA: AND AFTER? First Epirion. Post 8vo. Full calf gilt, g.e. London, 1867. GIT IS Presentation copy from Carlyle to John Ruskin, with Autograph Inscription on title :— “To John Ruskin Esq., &c., &c. with many regards. T. C. (Chelsea 1867). Also two or three marginal notes in Ruskin’s autograph. [208] WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP. A Novel. From the German of Goethe. | First Epirion. 3 vols., post 8vo. Original boards, with the original labels nearly perfect, uncut. Edinburgh, 1824. £20 Binding repaired. |
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