Symington, Andrew James SOME PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF [THOMAS] CARLYLE  

Paisley, Alex Gardner, 1886

1st Edition, 8vo (20cm), 129pp [1] blank.  Publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to upper board.  Tight and square.  No previous ownership marks.  Light rubbing to baords. Browning to first and last leaf. Some marginal foxing spots to untrimmed fore-edge.  Closed tear to rear endpaper.

An excellent copy of a scarce posthumous account of the famous essayist and historian.  Andrew James Symington (1825-1898) was a Scottish author and essayist from Paisley. His publications include Harebell Chimes, 1848; Genevieve, and Other Poems, 1851; The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, 1857; Pen and Pencil Sketches of Faröe and Iceland, 1862; The Reasonableness of Faith, 1870; Hints to our Boys, 1884; Poems, and other works. He also edited Blackie's series of Men of Light and Learning, and contributed to a large number of magazines in Great Britain and the United States.  The present work was first printed as a series of articles in the New York Independent.  The book open with a moving account of Carlyle’s funeral and thereafter covers many aspects of his life ‘from personal intercourse, extending over many years’ with the author.

 

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