SARTOR RESARTUS: THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF HERR TEUFELSDROECKH With the Preface of Ralph Waldo Emerson and an Introduction by Bliss Perry

LIMITED EDITION, one of 1500 hand-numbered copies printed by Oliver Simon, AND SIGNED BY HIM. 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth, the upper cover decorated with a sunburst within a gilt frame, the rear cover gilt framed, the spine gilt ruled, lettered, and decorated, patterned endpapers, t.e.g., in the original clear cellulose jacket and original patterned paper-covered slipcase with printed label. xxiv, [1], 377, [1] pp. A very fine copy, the text and binding essentially as mint and pristine, the rarely encountered cellulose wrapper in outstanding condition, still perfectly clear and flexible, not yellowed and cracking as is normal, and then only when they are found at all. The slipcase with some mellowing to the paper and light rubbing along the edges but still sturdy, strong, and attractive.

Edizione: the limited edition curwen press issue of carlyle's first major work, a brilliantly humorous philosophical novel in the form of an essay. published for members of the limited editions club, this was designed and printed by oliver simon, who at this time was chairman and managing director of the curwen press. simon had an enormous influence on the improvement of printing, typography, and type design.<br> sartor resartus (the tailor re-tailored) is ostensibly a learned german treatise on the philosophy, the symbolism, and the influence of clothes; being mulled-over by a somewhat skeptical and cantankerous english editor and reviewer. the main theme, that the intellectual forms in which the deepest human convictions have been cast are dead and new ones must be found to fit the time, was especially appealing to the budding transcendentalists in new england. after its initial serial appearance in fraser's magazine the first printing in book form was published in boston with a preface by none other than ralph waldo emerson, which is reprinted in the present edition. sartor resartus was influential to the further development of the transcendentalists movement.