The French Revolution: A History exterior details. Upon completing the first volume of his history of the French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle sent the manuscript to his friend, John Stewart Mill, whose domestic servant mistook it for waste paper and used it as a firelighter! Thus, Carlyle was being somewhat literal when describing The French Revolution: A History as a book “direct and flamingly from the heart.” Often issued in three volumes, here I’ll be taking a look at the single-volume edition published by the Limited Editions Club in 1956. This is LEC book number 265, part of the Twenty-Fourth Series. Limited Editions Club 1956 xviii, 629pp 4to (270x190x45mm) 2kg quarter bound in red leather with blue cloth sides in plain gold slipcase limited to 1,500 copies black and white illustrations throughout signed by the illustrator. It’s both thrilling and disconcerting in equal measure-if you can get through Carlyle’s idiosyncratic prose. Carlyle doesn’t so much recount the history of the French Revolution as take us there.
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