A History of the Revolution in England in 1688. - 1834

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Londman, and John Taylor,, 1834. First edition of the Whig historian's study of the Glorious Revolution. Mackintosh's notes for this history passed to Thomas Babington Macaulay, who employed them for his own History of England (1848). Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), a jurist, politician, and academic, is best known for recanting his early support of the French Revolution and for embracing Burkean conservatism. By Mackintosh's death, his account had advanced as far as the abdication of James II. The account was completed by his editor, who also added an extensive study of Mackintosh's life and work. The appendix, moreover, reprints several documents from the Revolution, including the invitation sent to William of Orange. Along with Macaulay, who characterised him as "singularly mild, calm, and impartial, in his judgements of men" (quoted in ODNB), Mackintosh is recognised as one of the major figures reconstituting Whiggish history and politics in the early decades of the 19th century. Provenance: Sir James Paget (1814-1899), a physician and pathologist, who served as surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria from 1858-67, with his supralibros on both covers. Quarto (279 x 209 mm). Contemporary calf, spine lettered direct in gilt, with tooled raised bands in gilt, and with brown morocco label, covers panelled in gilt and blocked with supralibros of Sir James Paget in blind, brown-grey endpapers, edges sprinkled red. Engraved portrait frontispiece, tipped-in errata slip before p. 1. Light bumping and rubbing, a couple of spots of stripping to covers, minor browning and foxing to endpapers and outer leaves. chip to foot of 3Y2: a very good copy.