Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations [ T C PRESENTATION COPY TO FAMILY] Included with the Supplement to the first edition.

CARLYLE, Thomas

Published by Chapman and Hall, 1845

About this Item

Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations. By Thomas Carlyle In Two Volumes. Included with the Supplement to the first edition. DESCRIPTION: London, Chapman and Hall, 1845-46. 3 volumes, octavo, pagination: xii, 522, [1]: xiv, 691 :viii, 224, with publishers' catalogue dated October 1845 inserted at the end of volume 2 and June 1846 at the end of volume 3, portrait frontispiece of Cromwell in volume one, original blind-stamped grey-black cloth. FIRST EDITION of a major history study and scholarly edition by Carlyle, who had become somewhat obsessed with restoring Cromwell's reputation. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN WELSH, paternal uncle of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and a close family member of the Carlyle circle - vide Jane's letters to him. 'Carlyle began writing with Cromwell in mind in 1840 but did not settle on Cromwell's letters and speeches as the focus of a book until late 1843.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 [here included in the supplementary volume].The book influenced the Transcendentalists and permeated popular American culture.' It "remains one of the most important works of British history published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." [David Amigoni]. Presentation copies of Carlyle's works to members of his family circle are now very scarce.

Seller Inventory # 000045

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations [ T C PRESENTATION COPY TO FAMILY] Included with the Supplement to the first edition.
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall
• Publication Date: 1845
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)