The Works of Thomas Carlyle

London: Chapman and Hall , 1897-02. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None . A beautiful set of the centenary edition in thirty volumes of the works of Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle here bound in uniform half calf. Centenary edition of the works of Thomas Carlyle, influential Scottish essayist and historian, leading author in the Victorian era. He was names a "secular prophet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Complete in thirty volumes rebound in attractive uniform half calf. Complete with half titles. Comprising the following:1901 edition of Sartor Resartus: the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh in three books in one, illustrated with a frontispiece.The French Revolution in three volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates to each volume. Collated, complete. Dated from a copy held at the British Library 1898. 1901 edition of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. With a frontispiece and two further plates. Collated, complete. 1902 edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with elucidations. In four volumes. With a frontispiece and two plates to each volume. Collated, complete. 1899 edition of Past and Present. Illustrated with a frontispiece. 1897 edition of The Life of John Sterling. With a frontispiece. 1897-8 edition of History of Friedrich II of Prussia called Frederick the Great in eight volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a plate, and a folding map to vol I; Collated, complete. A frontispiece, plate, and three maps to vol. II, one of which folding; Collated, complete. A frontispiece, a plate and one map in text to vol. III - bound without map of the 'Kingdom of Prussia'; A frontispiece, a plate, and four maps to vol. IV, of which three folding; Collated, complete. A frontispiece, a plate, and four maps over three leaves to vol. V, of which one folding; Collated, complete. A frontispiece, plate, and ten maps to vol. VI, of which six folding; Collated, complete. A frontispiece, a plate, and seven maps to vol. VII, of which four folding; Collated, complete. A frontispiece, plate, and a folding map to vol. VIII; Collated, complete. 1898 edition of Latter-Day Pamphlets with a frontispiece. 1898 edition of German Romance in two volumes, with biographical and critical notices. With a frontispiece and further plate to each volume. Collated, complete. 1899 edition of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels in two volumes. With a frontispiece and further plate to each volume. Collated, complete. 1899 edition of The Life of Friedrich Schiller with a frontispiece and five further plates misbound to rear of volume. Collated, complete. 1899 edition of Critical and Miscellaneous Essays in five volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece and further plate to each volume as well as some further illustrations in text. Collated, complete. Rebound in uniform half calf over cloth covered boards with gilt to top edge, titles in gilt to morocco spine labels, renewed marbled endpapers. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear, light rubbing to back strips. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to fore edge affecting only first and last few leaves and occasional margin; pages otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed