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Title: Works - "The Ashburton Edition" Author: Carlyle, Thomas Place: London Publisher: Chapman and Hall Date: 1885 Description: 17 volumes. (8vo) full brown pebbled morocco, gilt devices at cover centers, spines gilt, all edges gilt. "The Ashburton Edition". A prize binding from Trinity College, Cambridge, with the college's gilt arms on front and rear covers and again in the top and bottom spine compartments. Prize label for "The Rev. Edward Yeats' Prize. Adjudged to J. Harkness, Jan. 1885" inside front cover of Volume 1. The Rev. Edward Yeats left a sum of money to the College, the interest arising therefrom to be divided each year between two scholars having graduated in the previous commencement, one who stands the highest in the mathematical tripos, the other the scholar who has most distinguished himself by general regularity of conduct. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines sunned, some light extremity wear; very good. Item number: 222482