Antique Book Set 1888 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Thomas Carlyle H/B

Description: Late nineteenth century, collection of essays on literature, history and biography by writer Thomas Carlyle. Four volumes bound as 2 books: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Collected and Republished by Thomas Carlyle Published by Chapman and Hall Limited in 1888. Contents: Volume I: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter; State of German Literature; Life and Writing of Werner; Goethe's Helena; Goethe; Burns; Life of Heyne; German Playwrights. Volume II: Voltaire; Novalis; Signs of the Times; Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Again; On History; Luther's Palm; Schiller; The Niebelungen Lied; German Literature of the Fourteenth and Fifteeenth Centuries; Taylor's Historic Survey of German Poetry. Volume III: Characteristics; Goethe's Portrait; Biography; Boswell's Life of Johnson; Death of Goethe; Goethe's Works; Corn-Law Rhymes; On History Again; Diderot; Count Cagliostro; Death of Edward Irving. Volume IV: The Diamond Necklace; Mirabeau; Parliamentary History of the French Revolution; Sir Walter Scott; Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs; Petition of the Copyright Bill; On the Sinking of the Vengeur; Baillie the Covenanter. Hardbacks. Over 1200 pages in total, 13.5 cm by 20 cm. Acceptable Condition Some wear and marks on the cover. Binding intact. Writing on the front end paper. Marks on the endpapers. Some foxing on the inner pages with front and back pages the most affected and more occasional marks on the inner pages. If you like this item you might be interested in our other Classic Novels and Fiction: IanTheHippo: Classics and other Fiction

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