Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay (2 Volume Set) (LP167)

Published 1865: First Editions / Hardcovers / Very Good Condition / 2 Volume Set

Original brown embossed cloth with gilt titles on the spines. 850 + combined very clean and bright pages, previous owners details on the first pages. Covers slightly rubbed and faded with time, bumped on the corners and frayed along the spine tips consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A scarce complete set. (LP167)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay was best known as a historian and politician, who is best remember for his seminal work 'The History of England'. Each of the essay featured in this volume were originally published in the Edinburgh Review.

British historian and Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century. [Google Books]