Three Volumes. Marbled endpapers. Amorial bookplate of Lewis Loyde in all volumes. All edges gold gilt. Fly leaves foxed. Contents clean. 220mm. 8vo. Polished leather ruled in gold. Spines decorated in gold; with red and black leather spine labels. Small loss of leather on third band of Volume One and slight rubbing at head. Slight wear on corners of all three volumes. Handsome set. Hardbound. Very good. Included among the essays and studies are those on: (I): Milton, Machiavelli, Hallam, Southey's Colloquies, Mr. Robert Montgomery, Civil Disabilities of the Jews, Moore's Life of Lord Byron, Life of Johnson, John Bunyan, John Hampden. (II): Burleigh and his Times, War of the Succession in Spain, Horace Walpole, William Pitt Earl of Chatham, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Bacon, Gladstone on Church and State. (III): Sir William Temple, Lord Clive, Von Ranke, Leigh Hunt, Lord Holland, Warren Hastings. Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800-1859) was an important nineteenth-century English poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W54
