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1854 Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to The Edinburgh Review
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Leather Binding
Bound in half calf with marbled boards.
Complete in two volumes.
Written by British historian and whig politician, Lord Macaulay, also known as Thomas Babington Macaulay.
This collection is comprised of articles that Lord Macaulay had previously contributed to the Edinburgh Review. These essays have been praised by some and criticised as maintaining 'whig history' by others.
Essays include 'Milton', 'Machiavelli', 'Moore's Life of Lord Byron', 'Gladstone on Church and State', and 'Warren Hastings', among many others.
With the bookplate of Josceline Grove to each volume.
Condition
Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Externally, generally smart, with light bumping to the extremities. Slight rubbing to extremities and boards, with rubbing causing loss to gilt on spine, lacking spine labels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the odd handling mark. Bookplate to the first blank.
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