THE IDEA OF HISTORY. Reprinted photographically, 1948, from sheets of the first edition (1946).. This item is unavailable.THE IDEA OF HISTORY. Reprinted photographically, 1948, from sheets of the first edition (1946).

8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. xxvi + 339 + [1] pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper with lightly sunned spine, which has traces of wear and a few stains Some stains to boards, but otherwise a very good copy. Armourial bookplate of Jasper Hubbard Reprint in the same year as first publication. Collingwood's most influential work which examines the development of the modern idea of history from Greco-Roman historiography, to the influence of Christian ideas, the beginnings of scientific history and its later flowering in England, Germany, France and Italy. The fifth part consists of a number of essays on the nature of history and historical method, evidence and progress. Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was an Oxford academic, philosopher, historian and archaeologist. Collingwood's manuscript was prepared for publication by Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900-80), later Principal of the University of St Andrews, who has contributed a short introduction on Collingwood as man and philosopher. PHILOSOPHY NATURAL HISTORY PHILOSOPHY NATURAL HISTORY HISTORY PHILOSOPHY.…