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THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND! By Lord Macaulay Complete in 5 volumes. STILL BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL BINDINGS! No date on the title pages. Printed in the 1800's. BOUND IN CALF LEATHER. INTRICATELY TOOLED GILDED SPINES. THIS IS A GORGEOUS ANTIQUARIAN SET. Macaulay, Lord. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. From the Accession of James the Second. Bound in gilded calf of the highest quality. Highly ornate and intricately gilded spines, with raised hubs. Marbled edges and end-papers. Bound in the highest quality leather bindings. Ornate gilded spine. Marbled end-papers. Complete in 5 volumes. The History Of England. CONDITION: VERY GOOD condition internally, with external wear to the original bindings. With external wear as is clearly shown in the pictures. The bindings have a lot of abrasion and wear as is clearly shown. Hinges all attached, with starting. Labels mostly present, as shown in the pictures. No writing. Still, a gorgeous antiquarian set. An exceptionally beautiful edition of Macaulay's History of England. This set would make a great gift and/or addition to any library. The History 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. 1616OREVR. N° de ref. del artículo 2022.08.02.england
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