Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, with half-title, mod🌌ern half morocco gilt, original cl🐭oth binding bound in at the rear

[with, loosely inserted:] Thomas Carlyle, autograph letter signed, to "Dear Sir", thanking him for his "learned and laborious Piece of Genealogy", and looking forward to understanding "what degree of evidence exists for those ꩵmanifold curious s📖tatements" it contains, 2 pages, 8vo, 1 April 1862