Author: Raymond Clare Archibald
Title: Carlyle&Apos;S First Love: Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman an Account of Her Life, Ancestry and Homes, Her Family and Friends
Description: London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1910. First edition. Leather. An illustrated first edition copy of this biography of Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman, the first love of Thomas Carlyle. The first edition of this work in a full morocco binding, with marbled paste downs, endpapers and edges. Ink inscriptions to the front free end paper and first blank page. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and a further 20 plates, one of which is a folding plate. Folding family tree to the rear. Collated complete. Raymond Clare Archibald (1875-1955) was a prominent Canadian-American mathematician. Known for his work as a historian of mathematics, Archibald contributed to many journals and authored a number of books. This was his biography of Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman, who was at one time the first love of Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher. In a full morocco binding. Externally very smart, with only light rubbing to the spine joints. Spine is slightly darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, but with a scattering of spots throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Count Alfred G. D'Orsay; Daniel Maclise. Very Good .

Keywords: Margaret Gordon Lady Bannerman Biography Raymond Clare Archibald Lady Bannerman Count Alfred G. D'Orsay; Daniel Maclise


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