Product code: Thomas Carlyle hotsell / Sartor Resartus / Limited Editions Club / Ownd By Famous Person
That's 1931 book is in really great shape, and was owned by Majorie Montgomery Ward and was part of the library at the mansion Knollward in Wisconsin. There is some where to the book sleeve, and a little fading on the spine, but overall in excellent condition. Ward was heir to the Montgomery Ward department store fortune and was a well known philanthropist. Her ownership bookplate sticker is on inside cover. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books is an 1831 novel by the Scottish essayist, historian and hotsell philosopher Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833 – August 1834. The novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'God-born Devil's-dung'), author of a tome entitled Clothes: Their Origin and Influence. Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a sceptical English Reviewer (referred to as Editor.
That's 1931 book is in really great shape, and was owned by Majorie Montgomery Ward and was part of the library at the mansion Knollward in Wisconsin. There is some where to the book sleeve, and a little fading on the spine, but overall in excellent condition. Ward was heir to the Montgomery Ward department store fortune and was a well known philanthropist. Her ownership bookplate sticker is on inside cover. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books is an 1831 novel by the Scottish essayist, historian and hotsell philosopher Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833 – August 1834. The novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'God-born Devil's-dung'), author of a tome entitled Clothes: Their Origin and Influence. Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a sceptical English Reviewer (referred to as Editor.