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Thomas Carlyle

Male : Prose writer and Essayist. Married Jane Welsh 1826
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Ecclefechan, Dumfries

Date of Birth : 1795 Date of Death : 1881 Age : 86

Education : Annan GS & Edinburgh University
1822-1830
(Trans) M A Legendre : Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry (1822 Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh)
(Trans) Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1824 Oliver & Boyd, Whittaker) - 3 vols
The Life of Friedrich Schiller
(1825 Taylor & Hessey) (1845 C & H 2nd Ed)
(Trans) Goethe - German Romance : Specimens of its Chief Authors (1827 Wm Tait, Edinburgh) - 4 vols

1831-1840
Sartor Resartus : The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsroeckh
(1836 James Munroe, Boston) - 500
[This first appeared in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-4]
[Reprinted, by Sept 1837 it had sold 1166 copies]
(1838 Saunders & Otley, London) - 500
Offered in 1998 for £250
Memoirs of Mirabeau
(1837 London & Westminster Review)
The Diamond Necklace
(1837 Fraser's Magazine)
The French Revolution
(1837 James Fraser, in 3 parts)
(1838 Little Brown - 2 vols)
(1839 James Fraser, London. 2nd Ed) - 3 vols
(1848 Chapman & Hall. 3rd Ed - 3 vols)
(1910 Chapman & Hall) - E J Sullivan 2 vols. 150 signed by Sullivan
Signed set offered in 1991 for £350
(Trans) Goethe : Goethe's Novel (1838 Moxon)
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
(1838 James Munroe, Boston) - 4 vols
Offered in 1998 for £625
(1839 James Fraser) - 4 vols
Chartism
(1840 James Fraser) (1840 Little & Brown, Boston)

1841-1850
On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History : Six Lectures
(1841 James Fraser) - 1000 (1841 Appleton, NY)
Past and Present
(1843 Chapman & Hall)
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches
(1845 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Ireland and Sir Robert Peel
(1849 The Spectator) - broadsheet
Legislation for Ireland
(1849 The Examiner) - broadsheet
Ireland the British Chief Governor
(1849 The Spectator) - broadsheet
The Squire Papers
(1849 Chapman & Hall)
The Negro Question
(1849 Fraser's Magazine) - broadsheet
Latter-Day Pamphlets
(1850 Chapman & Hall) - a series of 8 pamphets (1850 C & Hall - single Vol Ed)

1851-1860
The Life of John Sterling
(1851 Chapman & Hall)
Samuel Johnson
(1853 C & H)
Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question
(1853 Thomas Bosworth, London 2nd Ed)
Burns
(1854 C & H)
History of Friedrich II of Prussia
(1858-65) - 6 vols

1861-1870
Inaugral Address at Edinburgh, April 2, 1866 - as Rector of Univ
(1866 Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh) (1866 Hotten, London)
Shooting Niagara : And After ?
(1867 Chapman & Hall)
Offered in 1998 for £220

1871-1880
The Early Kings of Norway
(1875 C & H) - incls an Essay on the Portraits of John Knox
Characteristics
(1877 Osgood, Boston) - 1st separate ed
Goethe
(1877 Osgood) - 1st separate ed

1881-1885
Reminiscences
(1881 Longmans Green) - 2 vols (1881 Harper, NY)
Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849
(1882 Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington)
(1882 NY)
Last Words of Thomas Carlyle
(1882 Wm Paterson, Edinburgh)
Carlyliana
(1883 PP) - 37 copies
Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson : 1834-72
(1883) - 2 vols

1886-1890
Thomas Carlyle's Counsels to a Literary Assistant : A Hitherto Unpublished Letter
(1886 James Thin, Edinburgh)
(Early) Letters (ed by Charles Eliot) (1886-9 London & NY) - 2 vols
Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle
(1887)
Reminiscences
(1887 Macmillan) - 2 vols
Repeal of the Union
(1889 Field & Tuer / Leadenhall Press/ Simpkin Marshall/ Hamilton Adams)
The Nieblungen Lied : An Essay
(1890 Putnams US)

1891-1900
Rescued Essays of Thomas Carlyle
(1892 Leadenhall Press)
Last Words of Thomas Carlyle
(1892 Longmans Green)
Wotton Reinfred : A Posthumous Novel
(1892 Waverley Co, US)
Lectures on the History of Literature
(1892 Curwen Kane) (1892 Ellis & Elvey, London)
Montaigne and Other Essays
(1897 James Gowans)
Historical Sketches of Notable Persons & Events in the Reign of James I & Charles I
(1898 C & H)
Sartor Resartus
(1898 Bell) - Edmund J Sullivan
Two Note Books of Thomas Carlyle
(1898 Grolier Club NY) - 387

After 1901
Collectanea Thomas Carlyle 1821-1855
(1903 Kirgate Press US) - 125
New Letters of Thomas Carlyle
(1904 John Lane, NY) - 2 vols
Sartor Resartus
(1907 Doves Press) - 300
The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle & Jane Welsh
(1909 John Lane) - 2 vols
The French Revolution : A History
(1910 C & H) - 2 vols. 150 signed by Edmund J Sullivan
Sartor Resartus
(1931 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - Ltd Ed 1500 signed by the Printer
Journey to Germany, Autumn 1858
(1940 Yale UP)
Carlyle's Unfinished History of German Literature
(1951 Univ of Kentucky Press)
The French Revolution
(1956 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Bernard Lamotte
Letters to His brother Alexander Carlyle 1819-76
(1968 Harvard UP)
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
(1970-93 Duke Univ Press, US) - 21 vols
Two Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle
(1974 Duke UP)
Wooden-Headed Publishers and Locust-Swarms of Authors
(1979 Univ of Edinburgh)
The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
(1986 Penkevill Publ Co, US)

COLLECTED EDITIONS
Collected Works
(1857-8 Chapman & Hall) - 16 vols
Collected Works : Library Edition
(1869-71 C & H) - 30 vols
Collected Works : Enlarged Library Edition
(1870-87 C & H) - 34 vols
Demy 8vo. Cloth £15.3s
Works : Ashburton Edition
(1885-8 C & H) - 17 vols
Works : Centenary Edition
(1896-9 C & H) - 30 vols
Standard Edition
(1905 Chapman & Hall) - 18 vols

READING
Richard H Shepherd : The Bibliography of Carlyle
(1881 Elliot Stock)
James Anthony Froude : Thomas Carlyle - A History of the First 40 Years of His Life
(1882-4 Longmans) - 4 vols
James Anthony Froude : Thomas Carlyle - A History of His Life in London 1834-1881
(1884 Longmans) - 2 vols
R Blunt : The Carlyle's Chelsea Home
(1895)
David A Wilson : Carlyle
(1923-34) - 6 vols
Emery Neff : Carlyle and Mill
(1924, 1926 NY)
Isaac W Dyer : A Bibliography of Carlyle's Writings
(1928 Portland, Maine)
Emery Neff : Carlyle
(1932 NY)
C F Harrold : Carlyle and German Thought, 1819-34
(1934 New Haven)
Julian Symons : Carlyle - The Life and Ideas of a Prophet
(1952)
(Ed) G M Trevelyan : Carlyle - An Anthology (1953 Longmans)
Thea Holme : The Carlyle's at Home
(1965 OUP) - Lynton Lamb
Isaac W Dyer : A Bibliography of Carlyle's Writings
(1968 Burt Franklin, NY)
Fred Kaplan : Thomas Carlyle - A Life
(1983 CUP)
Rodger L Tarr : Thomas Carlyle - A Descriptive Bibliography
(1989 Clarendon Press)
Simon Heffer : Moral Desperado - A Life of Thomas Carlyle
(1995 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20)

[Carlyle's House at 24 Cheyne Row, London SW3 is housed with artefacts and pictures
associated with him]

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Oliver Cromwell
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See also

Bibliographical Series
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Books About Ireland
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
Julian Gustave Symons
Traveller's Library, The