Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, By Thomas Babington MacAulay. In Three Volumes
by Thomas Babington MacAulay
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About This Item
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. Sixth Edition . Fine Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Published in 1849, the Sixth edition. Complete in 3 volumes. Size 8.75" x 5.5", 490, 611, and 628 pages. Tree calf and gilt fine binding. The front and back covers are made of mid brown tree calf with a borders of gilt flowers and scrolls. Tan calf spines with five raised bands with gilt detail. Titles and volume numbers in gilt on brown leather labels in the second and third and elaborate gilt flowers and scrolls in the other compartments. Gilt hatching to the cover edges, marbled page edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Condition very good, corners and edges a little rubbed, owner's bookplate on front pastedowns else fine, contents very clean. With the bookplate of Henry Yool Esq. on the front pastedown of each volume. Contains: Volume I; Milton, Machiavelli, Hallam's Constitutional History, Southey's Colloquies on Society, Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems, Civil Disabilities of the Jews, Moore's Life of Lord Byron, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Southey's edition of The Pilgrim's Progress, Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden. Volume II; Burleigh and his Times, War of the Succession in Spain, Horace Walpole, William Pitt Earl of Chatham, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Bacon, Gladstone on Church and State, Sir William Temple. Volume III; Lord Clive, Von Ranke, Leigh Hunt, Lord Holland, Warren Hastings, Madame D'Arblay, The Life and Writings of Addison, The Earl of Chatham.
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- Lazarus Books Limited
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011635
- Title
- Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, By Thomas Babington MacAulay. In Three Volumes
- Author
- Thomas Babington MacAulay
- Format/Binding
- Fine Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1849
- Keywords
- HISTORY PROSE ENGLISH LITERATURE SCOTLAND ENGLAND MILTON, MACHIAVELLI, HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY, MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS, CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS, MOORE'S LIFE LORD BYRON, BOSWELL'S
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
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