Click to View Image Album

Click to View Image Album

Click to View Image Album

 

LORD MACAULAY's Critical and Historical Essays!!

Complete in 4-volumes!

Printed in 1880!

This set is over 130 years old!!

 

Bound in full calf leather bindings!

Full leather bindings such as these were very costly to produce, and are very desirable!

 Ornate gilded spine with raised hubs!

Marbled edges, end-papers.

Gilt turn-ins and trim around edge of boards.

This is a gorgeous library set, and displays beautifully!

6 7/8''.

Complete four volume set.

Longman's, Green and Co., London.

Printed in 1880.

Very Good condition internally. Only good condition externally with wear consistant with that book grade. General rubbing, as shown. Hinges are all attached but are starting, and may have been professionally strengthened, with archival materials, for longevity. Clear, bold text. Clean pages. Free of foxing. Early inscription in pencil.

 

This is a gorgeous library set, and displays beautifully!

This is a complete four volume set.

Volume IV includes an index.

A handsome collection.

Macaulay's political writings are famous for their brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which the country threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression.

 

These will be professionally padded for shipping.