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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review [3 volumes, Leather Bound]
by Macaulay, Thomas B
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
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About This Item
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1854. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was an English historian, poet, literary critic and politician. This copy is bound in 3/4 dark green leather over marbled boards. The spine has five raised bands with gilt spine lettering and compartment decoration. Top edges of all volumes are gilt. Marbled end paper. Pagination: vol.1 585 p.; vol. 2 611 p.; vol. 3. 626 p. There is just a little edgewear to this set. The contents are clean and free of foxing or staining. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front paste down in each volume. ; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall .
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- Peninsula Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18547
- Title
- Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review [3 volumes, Leather Bound]
- Author
- Macaulay, Thomas B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Eighth Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1854
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- Gilt
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