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[005217] [Carlyle, Thomas]; Goethe. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travel. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. Reprint. 12mo. Hardback. Good+. Three volumes complete – Volume One – [5], vi-xix, [4], 2-324pp; Volume Two – [5], 4-377pp, [1]; Volume Three – [5], iv-xxxi, [6], 38-290pp

Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spines in six panels, title lettered directly in gilt to second panel, translator and volume number to fourth panel, with place and date to foot, t.e.g., marbled endpapers

Spines slightly faded, very minor rubbing to extremities, internally occasional pencil lines to margins, a few instances of light foxing, but generally fairly bright and clean. Armorial book plate of Robert Balloch to front pastedowns

A revised edition, first published in English translation in 1824

Dyer, page 262; Morgan, German Literature in English Translation, 3001; Tarr A.2.3.I-III.b