1874 Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

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School prize binding Bound in calf leather with marbled edges and gilt lettering and decoration. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800 –1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician and one of the two Members of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It ceased publication in 1929.