Selections from the Edinburgh Review; comprising the best articles in that journal, from its commencement to the present time. With a preliminary dissertation and explanatory notes

Cross, Maurice, ed

Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row, London, 1833

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4 volumes, 8vo, pp. cxxvii, [1], 577, [1]; iv, 675, [1]; iv, 675, [1]; iv, 679, [1]; original brown paper-covered boards and printed paper labels on spines; textblock roughly trimmed; dampstain to upper board and spine of first volume (textblock spared); joints and edges rubbed, edges and endpapers foxed; all else very good and sound. Carmine bookseller's ticket at top left of each front pastedown: "Mitchell, / Bookseller & / Stationer. / 33, Old Bond Street." Cross is described on the title page as Secretary to the Belfast Historical Society. "The magazine soon earned wide esteem for its political and literary criticism, and by 1818 it had attained a circulation of 13,500. Its contributors included the novelist Sir Walter Scott, the essayist William Hazlitt, the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, the educator Thomas Arnold, and the legal historian Sir James Stephen. The Edinburgh Review s prestige and authority among British periodicals during the 19th century were matched only by that of The Quarterly Review" (Encyclopedia Britannica). Seller Inventory # 66673

Bibliographic Details

Title: Selections from the Edinburgh Review; ...

Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row, London

Publication Date: 1833

Binding: Soft cover