Centenary edition of the works of Thomas Carlyle, influential Scottish essayist and historian, leading author in the Victorian era. He was names a "secular prophet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Complete in thirty volumes rebound in attractive uniform half calf. Complete with half titles. 

Comprising the following:

1901 edition of Sartor Resartus: the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh in three books in one, illustrated with a frontispiece.

The French Revolution in three volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates to each volume. Collated, complete. Dated from a copy held at the British Library 1898. 

1901 edition of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. With a frontispiece and two further plates. Collated, complete. 

1902 edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with elucidations. In four volumes. With a frontispiece and two plates to each volume. Collated, complete. 

1899 edition of Past and Present. Illustrated with a frontispiece. 

1897 edition of The Life of John Sterling. With a frontispiece. 

1897-8 edition of History of Friedrich II of Prussia called Frederick the Great in eight volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a plate, and a folding map to vol I; Collated, complete. 
A frontispiece, plate, and three maps to vol. II, one of which folding; Collated, complete. 
A frontispiece, a plate and one map in text to vol. III - bound without map of the 'Kingdom of Prussia'; 
A frontispiece, a plate, and four maps to vol. IV, of which three folding; Collated, complete. 
A frontispiece, a plate, and four maps over three leaves to vol. V, of which one folding; Collated, complete. 
A frontispiece, plate, and ten maps to vol. VI, of which six folding; Collated, complete. 
A frontispiece, a plate, and seven maps to vol. VII, of which four folding; Collated, complete. 
A frontispiece, plate, and a folding map to vol. VIII; Collated, complete. 

1898 edition of Latter-Day Pamphlets with a frontispiece. 

1898 edition of German Romance in two volumes, with biographical and critical notices. With a frontispiece and further plate to each volume. Collated, complete. 

1899 edition of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels in two volumes. With a frontispiece and further plate to each volume. Collated, complete. 

1899 edition of The Life of Friedrich Schiller with a frontispiece and five further plates misbound to rear of volume. Collated, complete. 

1899 edition of Critical and Miscellaneous Essays in five volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece and further plate to each volume as well as some further illustrations in text. Collated, complete.