The History Of England (Two-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Rebound copy. Bound in full calf leather with gilt-lettered spines. Age-related wear including rubbing and scuffing to the boards.
This handsome antiquarian set of considerable historical and decorative significance, this two-volume "History of England" presents David Hume's monumental narrative spanning from the Roman invasion of Julius Caesar through to the Revolution of 1688, with Hewson Clarke of Emmanuel College, Cambridge adding a further continuation through the reign of George IV to encompass the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, Portugal, and Russia, and the Congress of Vienna, the whole embellished with splendid engraved plates and published by Thomas Kelly, whose early nineteenth-century editions of this work remain among the most visually impressive popular productions of Hume's text, binding together in one set the two towering achievements of British Enlightenment historiography and Regency-era military chronicle.
Author: David Hume; Hewson Clarke
Format: Hardback
Published: 1823, Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Rebound copy. Bound in full calf leather with gilt-lettered spines. Age-related wear including rubbing and scuffing to the boards.
This handsome antiquarian set of considerable historical and decorative significance, this two-volume "History of England" presents David Hume's monumental narrative spanning from the Roman invasion of Julius Caesar through to the Revolution of 1688, with Hewson Clarke of Emmanuel College, Cambridge adding a further continuation through the reign of George IV to encompass the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, Portugal, and Russia, and the Congress of Vienna, the whole embellished with splendid engraved plates and published by Thomas Kelly, whose early nineteenth-century editions of this work remain among the most visually impressive popular productions of Hume's text, binding together in one set the two towering achievements of British Enlightenment historiography and Regency-era military chronicle.