About this title: First published in serial form in "Fraser's Magazine" in 1833-1834, "Sartor Resartus" was discovered by the American Transcendentalists and became one of the important texts of 19th-century English literature. This edition is the second volume of an eight-volume series of the classic work.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: James Munroe and Co., Boston
Date Published: 1956
Description: Blind-stamped ribbed brown cloth over boards. No DJ. 130 pages. Edge wear with chipping to corners and spine ends. Prev. owner's name and date on ffep. Some yellowing, a few fingerprints, first signature wiggly, front inner hinge weak. A few margin notes. Fair. Binding tight. All text readable. A good reading copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London
Description: Good+/No Jacket. Spine is torn at top. Minor rubbing along board edges and corners. Ex library with usual stamps and markings. 216p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2000/04/12
ISBN-13:9780520209282ISBN:0520209281
Description: Collectible-Acceptable. No inscriptions, pages good although yellowed, No dust jacket, hardback cover worn on edges. Published by Ward, Lock & Co Ltd. With an introduction by Edward Dowden. Title is Sartor Resartus, T. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chapman and Hall London 1896
Description: Fair (no dj, dark blue ribbed cloth very dull on spine, boards a bit grubby, dust marks to endpapers and some internal hinges, outside page edges brown and dusty, browning prelims and light age browning all page edges, some grubby marks) octavo 250pp. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Buckram
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York
Date Published: 1893
Description: Tucker, Elizabeth S. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 12mo. An "Artist's edition with numerous new illsutrations by Elizabeth S. Tucker " A 7 " by 4 5/8" hardback with green coarse cloth/ buckram covers. Slightly dulled gilt titles and wreath decorations on the slightly faded and slightly darkened spine and one small rust spot. The front cover has bright gilt titles and giltand black wreath and ribbon decoration. The fore edges of the front and back covers have some white spotting. The cover edges are ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chapman and Hall London undated
Description: Vg (no dj, red cloth with geometric black design both boards and spine, gilt title on spine, spine and front board lightly darkened and faded patches on front board, front free endpaper missing, browning to first page of publisher's adverts at front of prelims and these preliminary pages becoming loose, binding of frontispiece and contents remaining firm and pages clean and bright) 12mo 228pp. No date of publication. Portrait frontis dated 1865. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Full Leather
Publisher: Grant Richards, London
Date Published: 1902
Description: Fair. No Dustjacket. 16mo. Number 19 of the World's Classics series. A 6 1/4" by 4" first edition covered in green leather with gilt titles and a gilt decorative panel on the spine and a very ornate rectangular gilt publisher's logo ( The initials G R in an entwined art nouveau foliate design ) centrally placed on the front cover. The spine is browned and has some scuffed patches. The top and bottom spine ends has worn back to the level of the top of the text pages. Some splits along the side ... read more
Description: Good. 0520209281 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. 0520209281 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"Or, redressing German Idealism. At the center of this strange "novel" is our ability to understand truth. Fiction cavorts as fact through the pen of an unnamed Editor and one Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, then becomes non-fiction as Carlyle's own transcendental philosophy takes form. By balancing form and theme, it interprets Hegel by way of Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell" to reveal truth as an imminent, rather than absolute, certainty that is reached by confronting known contradictions and overcoming the neutral detachment that follows. The extended metaphor of "spiritual journey" for "human progress" is wrought with its own unresolved contradictions, but Carlyle's method is a model for the creative expression of an abstract idea."
"Truly weird stuff!! I would only recommend this if you're interested in untangling an ungodly mix of Scottish Calvinism and German philosophy - not really my bag at all. It is strewn with some fabulous quotes, which is probably its only redeeming feature."
"Djuna Barnes certainly read this. Buried in the last chapter, I recently found a phrase she used for a chapter title in Nightwood. "Watchman, what of the Night". I read Sartor Resartus repeatedly, with joy."
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