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Price: US$12.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bronw bobbled cloth (probably an old private binding). Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Packed weight 999g.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1845. Chapman and Hall. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, half leather with green patterned boards. Spine is worn and ends are slightly damaged. College bookplate and stamps. 8x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1845. Chapman and Hall. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, half leather with green patterned boards. Spine is worn and split vertically down the centre. College bookplate and stamps. 8x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.42 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: In 2 Vols.; Vol. 1 xii + 522pp; Vol. 2 xiv + 692pp + 16pp book-list; Original brown blind-stamped cloth; Gilt lettering to spines; Both volumes show wear to covers with fraying to spines; Vol. 1 has previous owner's signature to ff.e.p.; Vol. 2 has detached back board and both volumes show spotting throughout though text is bright and clear; Digital photos available on request; Size: 8vo
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. Rare First Edition. With frontispiece portrait of Cromwell. 8vo, publisher's originalbrown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines and ornately decorated in blind on the covers. xii, 522, 14 ad; xiv, 692 pp. A handsome set, well preserved, clean and tight, the hinges strengthened. FIRST EDITION. The work "remains one of the most important works of British history published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Trela, D. J. (2004). "Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches" Carlyle began writing with Cromwell in mind in 1840 but he did not settle on Cromwell's letters and speeches as the focus of a book until late 1843. His first definitive statement that he would collect the letters and speeches comes in a letter to Edward FitzGerald dated 9 January 1844 wherein he proposed "the gathering of all Oliver's Letters and Speeches, and stringing them together according to the order of time." Carlyle was contemplating a biography of Cromwell when he concluded his initial work in October 1844 writing to FitzGerald on 8 February 1845 that "The Life must follow when it can." During the spring and summer of 1845 Carlyle added many annotations full of commentary and narrative to the gathering, which in effect became the biography that he wanted to write. The publication of the first edition helped turn up a large number of additional letters which Carlyle incorporated into a second edition published in June 1846. More letters accompanied the third edition of November 1849. James Anthony Froude called it the nineteenth century's "most important contribution to English history," explaining that "with the clear sight of Oliver himself, we have a new conception of the Civil War and of its consequences." George Peabody Gooch wrote that "it was the proudest achievement of [Carlyle's] life to restore to England one of her greatest sons . . . the 'Cromwelliad' remains a marvellous production." Wilbur Cortez Abbott called it "the greatest literary monument to the Protector's memory." The book influenced the Transcendentalists and permeated popular American culture. Joel T. Headley's biography of Cromwell "recycled Carlyle for the masses," thereby influencing John Brown, who modelled himself after Cromwell as described by Headley. Wiki
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A handsome Victorian calf binding with the classic gilt raised bands, twin labels and very fine gilding to the panels. With a neat ink inscription Constance Bellingham, the gift of her affectionate father'. (The Earl of Gainsborough) of Exton House and the bookplate of Sir Henry Bellingham of Castle Bellingham, County Louth. Foxing to the preliminaries, then perfectly clean. A very scarce set of the first edition.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom