Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present, 1843, with an autograph letter signed loosely inserted, 1862

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, with half-title, modern half morocco gilt, original cloth binding bound in at the rear

[with, loosely inserted:] Thomas Carlyle, autograph letter signed, to "Dear Sir", thanking him for his "learned and laborious Piece of Genealogy", and looking forward to understanding "what degree of evidence exists for those manifold curious statements" it contains, 2 pages, 8vo, 1 April 1862