‘Authorised Edition’. 8vo. Contemporary blue pebble-grain morocco by Bickers & Son, spine lettered and richly tooled in gilt, covers panelled in gilt with attractive corner-pieces, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1886.
An attractively bound copy of this compilation of writings by the great Whig historian Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) including his Lays of Ancient Rome, a collection of heroic narrative poems drawn from Roman history.
A fine copy. Contemporary ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper.
