SPEECHES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE T.B. MACAULAY. IN TWO VOLUMES.

First Edition Thus. Hardback. 8vo. pp xiv, 320; 314. Handsomely bound in half tan leather over marbled boards, lettered gilt at the spines with five raised bands and all edges marbled. Bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919) 'collum quid quaerimus ultra'. An English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. He corresponded with other scientists of his time including Charles Darwin and lived at South Lodge, Lower Beeding Tauchnitz Edition, 284. Slight scuffing to boards and slight foxing in the preliminaries, otherwise a handsome, very good set.