[Rarebooks] FS: 1845 Oliver Cromwell by Thomas Carlyle

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”

By Thomas Carlyle.
Published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1845.

DISCUSSION: Thomas Carlyle [1795–1881] Scottish philosopher, satirist,
historian and essayist, coined the phrase “the dismal science” when
referring to economics, and helped to resuscitate Oliver Cromwell’s
reputation in the Victorian era. Carlyle presented Cromwell “as a hero in
the battle between good and evil and a model for restoring morality to an
age that Carlyle believed to have been dominated by timidity, meaningless
rhetoric, and moral compromise”, while stressing Cromwell's “centrality of
puritan morality and earnestness”. Well, I suppose that would be one way
to look at it.

DESCRIPTION: 2 volumes hardcover. 5.5”x9”, xii + 522 [and] xiv + 692
pages, 2 portrait frontispieces. Bound in handsome three-quarter leather
and red cloth, raised, gilt bands and titling.

CONDITION NOTES: Some light cover wear, minor soil, scattered internal
foxing. Volume 2 with several instances of scuffing to the fore-edge which
extends to the edges of the pages (please see last photos, below). Tight
bindings.

PRICE: $250. -

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