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Past and Present (Everyman's Library #608)
by CARLYLE, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
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London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardcover. A 1919 reprint of the 1912 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting the 1843 collection of essays by Scotland's Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). In this work, the author reshapes a medieval chronicle to comment on ". . .modern evils, social, political and cultural life [in Britain during his time]" (per Ross, p.84). With author's summary of the contents, as well as an index, at rear of volume. Includes an "appreciation" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Number 608 in Everyman's Library catalog in their Essays and Belles-Lettres series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full orange cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed once-gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- The spine gilding has dulled to the point of being closer to brown than gold in color, and with moderate soiling to cloth, slight dampstains to a few leaves and prior owner's initials in colored pencil to ffep, but overall a sound, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xvi, 304 pages .
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- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85850
- Title
- Past and Present (Everyman's Library #608)
- Author
- CARLYLE, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>England, UK and UK History;
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