From The Invasion Of Julius Caesar To The Revolution In 1688. With: The History Of England From The Revolution To The Death Of George The Second. Designed As A Continuation Of Mr Hume's History.
The History of England From The Invasion Of Julius Caesar To The Revolution In 1688. With: The History Of England From The Revolution To The Death Of George The Second. Designed As A Continuation Of Mr Hume's History.
Longman, 1848.
New edition, with the authors' last corrections. Ten volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, elaborate tooled borders and spine compartments gilt. Morocco title labels to spines, lettered gilt. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Frontispiece portraits of the authors to the first volumes. A near fine set, with a little fading to the spine, minor wear to a couple joints and rear joint to volume one just starting.
A handsome nineteenth century set of the Hume-Smollet history of England. Asked by his publisher to continue his history beyond the sixth volume, David Hume replied that he was "too old, too fat, too lazy, and too rich" to do so, hence Smollet's continuation.
"What Hume had given the world in his History of England was a broad, sweeping narrative of the national developments, philosophically coherent, artistically ordered, and pre-eminently readable... 'I have inserted,' he candidly explains, 'no original Papers, and enter'd into no Detail of minute uninteresting Facts. The philosophical Spirit which I have so much indulg'd in all my Writings, finds here ample Materials to work upon.'" (Mossner)
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