Cover for Carlyle's Collected Works

7 1/2 x 5 inches

1867

This elegant sixteen-volume set of the Victorian sage who had already become a classic in his lifetime had a gold-embossed leather spine with a red label and leather corners but used matching marbelized paper both for the cardboard covers and endpapers.

References

Carlyle, Thomas. Collected Works. 16 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1858.

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Last modified 27 May 2005