Sartor Resartus, the Life and Opinion of Herr Teufelsdrockh
London: George Bell and Sons, 1898. Small Octavo. Item #023638
Frontispiece, xxiii, 351 (1) pp. illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan. This is Carlyle's most enduring and influential work, first published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834. Sartor Resartus satirizes the pursuit of a truth that does not really exist, as the Romantics believed that people could never truly understand the world around them. The text also satirizes biographers who consider themselves more important than their subjects. A fine copy bound in dark blue pictorial gilt cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt spine and all edges gilt, previous owner Major R. H. Raymond Smythies' (1860-1939) elaborate pictorial bookplate. He was a commissioned officer in the Prince of Wales's Volunteers who retired from the Army in 1903 and author of Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment.
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