CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS BY LORD MACAULAY 1883 FINE RIVIERE BINDING

[MACAULAY, LORD (1800-1859)]. Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review'. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1883.

Authorised edition. Hardcover. Full leather. Octavo (190 x 120 mm.), pp. [vi], (2), 850. Handsome contemporary tree calf by Riviere (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet). Five raised spine bands, the compartments and bands ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt. Red and black morocco lettering-pieces in second and third compartments. Gilt ruled frame to boards, the edges similarly gilt. Turn-ins blind ruled. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Small bookseller ticket to corner of front pastedown. Half-title present. Dedication and preface. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure with minor trace of rubbing to extremities. Contents remarkably fresh and clean. Contemporary inscription to front endpaper. A beautiful Riviere binding.