Reminiscences.
1881. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881.
2 vols. 8vo, xi, (3), 338; (vi), 341 pp. Frontispiece. Finely bound without the ads in half calf and marbled boards, backstrips gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bindings a little scuffed but respectable, scattered foxing, bookplates depicting an angler (after Thomas Bewick) of Richard Ormond of Tynemouth in each volume.
§ First edition, published a month after Carlyle's death by his literary executor, James Anthony Froude. The bookplate is after Thomas Bewick, signed "C.N[aish]," and was #187 in the Grolier Club catalogue of an exhibition of angling bookplates held June 6 to September 7, 1918. Item #124673
Price: $325.00