THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LORD MACAULAY. Including: The HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Edited by his Sister Lady Trevelyan.
Complete in 8-Volumes. Printed in 1866.
Bound in full moroccan leather bindings. Elaborate and highly decorative gilding and intricate gilded paneling to the covers. Bound in the highest quality full-leather bindings. Full leather bindings are not very common as they were more expensive to produce. Ornate gilded trim on boards and turn-ins. Gilt tooling on board edges. Ornate gilded spine. All edges cased in gilt. Marbled end-papers. Thick and heavy volumes. 8 3/4'' tall. Complete in 8 volumes, as stated on title page. Longmans, Green, and Co., London. 1866.
Very Good condition. Leather is very supple. All volumes still tightly bound. Hinges attached, rubbed. Printed on quality paper. All hinges attached, Hinge on volume-two has been archivally reinforced. General rubbing/wear, scuffs, signs of usage, some minor foxing, more prevalent on the first few pages. Clean, bright interior having been printed on thick, quality, paper. No writing or signs of previous ownership.
A gorgeous collection of Macaulay's complete works.
Titles:
Vol. I - IV History of England
Vol. V - VI Essays
Vol. VII Essays / Biographies / Miscellanies
Vol. VIII Speeches / Poems
Complete in 8-Volumes.
Macaulay's History of England is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which the country threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history.
Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians for its one-sidedness and its complacency. His tendency to see history as a drama led him to treat figures whose views he opposed as if they were villains, while his approved characters were presented as heroes. Macaulay goes to considerable length, for example, to absolve his hero William III of any responsibility for the Glencoe massacre.
Macaulay's approach to writing 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 eighteenth century precursors such as Hume, following the plan laid out in his own earlier Essay on History.
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