Carlyle's Collected Works

Spine for Carlyle's Collected Works

1867

One quarter leather binding with red plus gold stamping and embossing and boards covered with marbelized paper

7 1/2 x 5 inches

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

Photograph and text by George P. Landow.

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