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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome. Popular Edition, New Impression.
by MACAULAY, Thomas Babington, Lord
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
39 Paternoster Row London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909.. 8vo. (17.5 x 11.5 cm). pp. [2] + 923. "Oxford Binding" (stamped in gilt to front pastedown endpaper) of contemporary tree calf, sides ruled with a gilt foliate border, spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, blind inner dentelle, marbled endpapers and edges. Ink inscription to preliminaries, 'J.B.R. Windham / Army Class IV / Mathematical Prize / Eton. July 1913 / W.W. Somerville' Some trivial shelfwear, generally an excellent example in a handsome binding. In October 1838 Macaulay set out for Rome, partly to visit the scenes of the events which he described in what would become his Lays of Ancient Rome, partly in imitation of Gibbon meditating The Decline and Fall. The Lays themselves are a collection of narrative poems, four of which recount heroic episodes from early Roman history with strong dramatic and tragic themes, giving the collection its name. Macaulay also included two poems inspired by recent history: Ivry (1824) and The Armada (1832)
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- Bookseller
- Robert Frew Ltd
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- 61199
- Title
- Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome. Popular Edition, New Impression.
- Author
- MACAULAY, Thomas Babington, Lord
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- 39 Paternoster Row London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909.
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Robert Frew has been trading in antiquarian books since 1975, starting out from an open market in Camden Lock, followed by shops in Primrose Hill, in Great Russell Street by the British Museum, Maddox Street Mayfair and now on the borders of South Kensington and Knightsbridge. Not to mention stints in Portobello Road and Safe Store Battersea.We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, of which Robert Frew is a past president.We Exhibit at most of the major international ILAB fairs in America, often in Europe and sometimes in the Middle and Far East. We are also members of the PBFA, exhibiting in London and occasionally in the provinces.
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