(History of England and Other Works). 32 vols.

London, John W. Parker and Son; Longmans, Green & Co., 1856-96. Illustrated. 8vo. Somewhat later green three-quarter morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt. London, John W. Parker and Son; Longmans, Green & Co., 1856-96. Fine set of the collected writings of James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), the English historian of literary excellence, one of the best prose writers of his generation. Contains: History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. 12 vols., 1856-70; Short Studies of Great Subjects. Second ed. 4 vols., 1867-83; The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. 3 vols., 1872-74; Thomas Carlyle. A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835. 2 vols., 1882; Thomas Carlyle. A History of His Life in London 1834-1818. 2 vols., 1884; The Pilgrim. A Dialogue on the Life and Actions of King Henry the Eighth, by William Thomas, ed. by Froude, 1861; Caesar. A Sketch, 1879; Oceana or England and her Colonies, 1886; The English in the West Indies or the Bow of Ulysses, 1888; The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon, 1891; The Spanish Story of the Armada and other Essays, 1892; Life and Letters of Erasmus, 1894; English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century, 1895; Lectures on the Council of Trent Delivered at Oxford 1892-3, 1896. LITERATURE: ENGLISH ; GESCHICHTE, KULTURGESCHICHTE ; HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ;