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CARLYLE, Thomas (1795-1881). Sartor Resartus. In Three Books. Reprinted for Friends from Fraser's Magazine. London: J. Moyes for James Fraser, 1834.
8o (215 x 135 mm). (Lacks the extra leaf of "Books published by James Fraser" at end, title reinforced along inner hinge annd with two small closed tears near gutter, title dustsoiled, some marginal nicks.) 19th century quarter morocco (rebacked, wear at extremities); cloth folding case.
Provenance: Thomas Holcroft (presentation inscription from the author on the title: "T. Holcroft Esqr with best wishes T. Carlyle.") -- three leaves with some pencilled marginalia -- A.S.W. Rosenbach Collection (card laid-in) -- Silvain S. Brunschwig (morocco bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 9 April 1951, lot 42 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 1 February 1968.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 58 privately printed copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THOMAS HOLCROFT.
Great difficulties surrounded the publication of Carlyle's Tuefelsdröckh. Carlyle began his search for a publisher in 1831 and proceeded to receive a long series of rejections, ranging from James Fraser to Longmans to Colburn & Bentley. Nearly two years later, it was published serially in ten parts of ten pages each in Fraser's Magazine from November 1833 through August 1834. Despite its novel form and humor, Sartor Resartus was financially "beyond measure unpopular," in Carlyle's words. After the work had reached its final installment in the magazine, 58 copies were printed and bound for private distribution. Dyer 220 ("VERY RARE"); Grolier English 79.
8o (215 x 135 mm). (Lacks the extra leaf of "Books published by James Fraser" at end, title reinforced along inner hinge annd with two small closed tears near gutter, title dustsoiled, some marginal nicks.) 19th century quarter morocco (rebacked, wear at extremities); cloth folding case.
Provenance: Thomas Holcroft (presentation inscription from the author on the title: "T. Holcroft Esqr with best wishes T. Carlyle.") -- three leaves with some pencilled marginalia -- A.S.W. Rosenbach Collection (card laid-in) -- Silvain S. Brunschwig (morocco bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 9 April 1951, lot 42 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 1 February 1968.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 58 privately printed copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THOMAS HOLCROFT.
Great difficulties surrounded the publication of Carlyle's Tuefelsdröckh. Carlyle began his search for a publisher in 1831 and proceeded to receive a long series of rejections, ranging from James Fraser to Longmans to Colburn & Bentley. Nearly two years later, it was published serially in ten parts of ten pages each in Fraser's Magazine from November 1833 through August 1834. Despite its novel form and humor, Sartor Resartus was financially "beyond measure unpopular," in Carlyle's words. After the work had reached its final installment in the magazine, 58 copies were printed and bound for private distribution. Dyer 220 ("VERY RARE"); Grolier English 79.