April 12, 2024
LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME Lord Macaulay POET Historian POLITICIAN Morocco Binding
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TITLE: Lays Of Ancient Rome AUTHOR: Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) ILLUSTRATOR: George Scharf, Jun. (1820-1895) PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, London DATE: Circa 1860s or 1870s DESCRIPTION: New Edition, circa 1860s/1870s, hardcover, stunning red morocco binding, gilt stamped decorations on front, back and spine, five raised bands on spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpages, dimensions 5 1/2" X 7", 210 pages. Profusely illustrated with over 40 high quality line engravings, some antique and others by George Scharf. There is a list of illustrations at back of book. Ancient poems of ancient Rome. Titles include: Horatius, The Battle Of The Lake Regillus, Virginia, and The Prophecy Of Capys. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history . He also held political office as Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841 and Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. () Sir George Scharf KCB, was an English art critic, illustrator and director of the National Portrait Gallery. () CONDITION: Book is in very good condition. Light wear to extremities. There is foxing on inside front and back end pages and title page , an engraved coat of arms book plate on inside front cover.,two former owner's inscriptions on front
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