Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835, Two Volumes in One

353; 402 pp. Ten pages of publisher ads follow text. Two volumes in one. Etched frontispieces of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle, (born December 4, 1795, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland—died February 5, 1881, London, England), Scottish historian and essayist, whose major works include The French Revolution, 3 vol. (1837), On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), and The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 6 vol. (1858–65).