THE LIFE & LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY 1876 EXTRA ILLUSTRATED, FINELY BOUND BY MORRELL

THE LIFE & LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY 1876 EXTRA ILLUSTRATED, FINELY BOUND BY MORRELL

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[TREVELYAN, George Otto]. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876.

First edition. Two volumes bound in four (complete); special extra-illustrated copy [with original signed letters]; leather-bound; hardcovers; octavos (22cm x 14cm); pp. xi, [1], 214; [2], 215-475; viii, 190; [2], 191-480. English text; stunningly bound by Morrell (gilt stamp-signed on front turn-ins) in full crushed morocco; covers decoratively bordered in gilt; spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments; top page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-titles; extra-illustrated by the insertion of 198 fine engraved (eighteenth and nineteenth century) portraits, plus 7 nineteenth century engraved views; additionally, each volume has a neatly pasted-in handwritten letter by Lord Macaulay or the author George Otto Trevelyan; printed footnotes; two volumes with old newspaper clippings relating to the Macaulay family neatly pasted-in at the end. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Condition: NEAR FINE. A near immaculate set; one board with very faint fading to the outer edge, otherwise pristine and without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.

Notes: A marvellous first edition extra-illustrated copy bound by Morrell in four volumes. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (1800-1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer. His books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. He was a member of the Babington family by virtue of his aunt's marriage to Thomas Babington. Here, his writings are brought together by Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM PC (1838-1928), a British statesman and author. Trevelyan published this work about his maternal uncle in 1876. This present copy is a remarkable extra-illustrated copy with the inclusion of four handwritten letters. Volume I. has 55 portraits, 3 views, and 1 letter - a private correspondence from Lord Macaulay to Adolphus. Volume II. has 45 portraits, 1 view, and 1 handwritten letter by the author with original envelope. Volume III. has 51 portraits, 3 views, and 1 handwritten letter by Lord Macaulay. Volume IV. with 47 portraits, and 1 handwritten letter by the author.