[Rarebooks] FS: Cromwell's Letters, Nice 1845 Leatherbound Set

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“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: $187.50 net

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