Past and Present
by Thomas Carlyle
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Chapman and Hall, London, 1896. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 268 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Chapman and Hall, London, 1896. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have mild soiling. Spine has slight fading. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian, cultural critic, and leading man of English letters during the Victorian era, published "Past and Present, "one of his most influential works, in 1843. Written as a response to the economic crisis of the 1840s--closure of factories, loss of jobs, the growth of slums in industrial centers, the starving poor--"Past and Present "aimed to lead readers toward a "conversion experience" in order to stimulate social reform. In this work, Carlyle provides a trenchant articulation of the political, social, religious, and economic climate of the mid-nineteenth century and a prophetic vision of the future. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 15020087..
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15020087
- Title
- Past and Present
- Author
- Thomas Carlyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- BZDB5 History; Past and Present
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....