Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Pages are clean and binding tight. Spines have some wear on top and bottom and also have some light chipping. Embossed covers. Endpapers and foredges are marbled. The volumes include a wide range of topics from profiles of individuals to broader topics There is a handwritten inscription, dated 1864, to the owner on the flyleaf of volume 1: ?E Huxtable presented by P. A. Smith.? Here is the full list of essay as they are titled in the volumes: Milton; Machiavelli; Hallam; Southey?s Colloquies; Mr. Robert Montgomery; Civil disabilities of the Jews; Moore?s Life of Lord Byron; Samuel Johnson; John Bunyan; John Hampden; 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; Sir William Temple; Lord Clive; Von Ranke; Leigh Hunt; Lord Holland; Warren Hastings. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was an English politician, essayist, poet, and historian. He is most famous for his five-volume History of England.…