CARLYLE, Thomas.

£250 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The French Revolution: A History. A smartly bound copy of Carlyle's History, which established his reputation as an intellectual. It was first published in 1837.The work influenced many of his contemporaries, including Dickens, whose Tale of Two Cities drew heavily from it. "The book at once captured the English-speaking world, and has, outside France, moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day" (PMM).Provenance: Stephen C. Massey.

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