Author: Lecky, William Edward Hartpole.
Title: A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 1700-1760. 1760-1784. 1784-1793. 1793-1800.
Description: London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890-1. Mixed Eds. 8 vols. Some light marginal age toning, inner gilt ruling, later e.ps., full gilt and blind ruled brown calf with gilt leaf decorations to hinges, minor marking and rubbing to extremities, a few corners sl. bumped, scuff with some sl. surface loss to fore edge of lower board to vol. 4, gilt ruled raised bands and gilt lettered pale green leather volume and title labels to rubbed and sl. scuffed spines, tail of spine to vol. 8 bumped, t.e.g. ¶ William Edward Hartpole Lecky, OM, PC, FBA (1838-1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century [above].

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