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IN STOCK Hardcover Folio Society, London 1980 edition - SCARCE - this edition has red leatherette cloth boards and gilt design and lettering - no dj - this particular copy is in clean unmarked condition but the top 1" of cover is slightly faded (sunned to a lighter red) - a clean solid collectible - Mailed within 2 working days with tracking number.

New York, Evening Post Job Printing Office, preface dated 5 May 1884.. 8°, original printed wrappers (spine worn, some chipping and fraying). Front wrapper and first leaf detached from the rest of the work. In good condition, if just barely. 28 pp. *** ***

London: FOLIO SOCIETY PUB. Very Good. 1985. HARDCOVER; Third Printing. Hardcover. 6x10"oversized. VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT..; Gold titles with gold decorative designs, ON DEEP red CLOTH apine STRIP & HARD COVER... B&W ILUST.. TAN ENDPAPERS...RED top edge text block.. ; 318pg pages .

Paperback / softback. New.

In a fitted box. Red cloth binding. Gilt design on the front board. Gilt title and decoration on the spine.
A very clean copy The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England. It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death. Macaulay's approach to writing the History was innovative for his period. He consciously fused the picturesque, dramatic style of classical historians such as Thucydides and Tacitus with the learned and factual approach of his 18th-century precursors such as Hume, following the plan laid out in his own 1828 "Essay on History". The History is famous for its prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England threw off superstition,… Read More

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. V (in Five Volumes): With a Memoir of Lord Macaulay and a Sketch of Lord Macaulay's Life a.

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Paperback / softback. New.

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. V (in Five Volumes): With a Memoir of Lord Macaulay and a Sketch of Lord Macaulay's Life a.

Cosimo Classics, 2010. Hardcover. New. 335 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches.

Hardback. New.

London : Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1873. New Edition. Hardback. Very good copies in contemporary bindings of 1/2 aniline calf over marbled boards. Gilt-titled leather labels to spines, with raised bands and gilt-tooled compartments. Marbled endpapers with all edges marble. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age, with some minor surface wear to the front panel of vol.2. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Description: 2v. (xxiv, 776, xi, 820p. ) ; 19cm. Subjects: Great Britain - History - James II, 1685-1688 - 1660-1714 - Stuarts, 1603-1714 - William and Mary, 1689-1702.

London: Chatto & Windus. Fine paper edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good copies in the original pebble-grain, gilt-blocked cloth. All copies Include elevated motif to the front board, publisher's device and black doublure. Spine bands and panel edges worn as with age. Remains overall quite a smart and well-preserved set. Physical description: 5 v.; 17 cm. Subjects: Great Britain History James II, 1685-1688. Great Britain History William and Mary, 1689-1702.

London, Longman, Brown. 1855-56. a mixed set of early editions of Macaulay's classic history, bound in full hard calf, gilt ruled boards with gilt decorations on the upper covers, extra gilt stamping on the spine, gilt ruled rasied bands, red and black morrocco labels, a very good to fine set. (ds1). Volume V, which is not present here, was issued only in 1861, two years after the author's death in 1859, and was edited by his sister, Lady Trevelyan.