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1884 Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
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Leather Binding
Complete in three volumes. A new edition. Prize binding from the University of Aberdeen. With a prize bookplate bound into the work after the front blank. A fascinating collection of essays, containing a broad range of essays discussing topics such as Milton, Leigh Hunt and Gladstone. Thomas Babington Macaulay was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. He also held political office as Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841 and Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. In 1825 he published a prominent essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review.
Condition
In full calf prize binding with gilt detail to the spine and boards. Externally smart with slight rubbing to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Backstrip to volume one is starting to lift. Joints are starting but firm. Scattered spotting to endpapers. Hinges are strained. Slight cracking to the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with scattered spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages. Prize bookplate has been bound into the work after the front blank.
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