The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. In Eight Volumes, Illustrated with Plates. By David Hume, Esq. A New Edition, with the Author's Last Corrections and Improvements. To Which is Prefixed, a Short Account of His Life, Written by Himself. Volume One. London: Printed by A. Strahan, MDCCCII (1802).
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. In Eight Volumes, Illustrated with Plates. By David Hume, Esq. A New Edition, with the Author's Last Corrections and Improvements. To Which is Prefixed, a Short Account of His Life, Written by Himself. Volumes Two to Eight. London: Printed for T. Cadell, MDCCXCII (1792).
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Provenance:
Ink ownership inscription of Henry Belche.
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Size: 135 x 215 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[frontis, t.p., half title, v-xxviii, 484pp.]; [half title, t.p., 4pp., 511pp.]; [t.p., 5pp., 464pp.]; [t.p., 5pp., 464pp.]; [half title, t.p., 3pp., 536pp.]; [half title, t.p., 4pp., 588pp.]; [half title, t.p., 4pp., 532pp.]; [half title, t.p., 4pp., 338pp., Z2-2N7, 2pp.]
Full brown calf with red tooled labels to spines in compartments between gilt bands. Volume one is of a different set thus with a different binding and a later publication date; volume one is half brown calf over marbled paper backed boards with a gilt title to the spine. Bindings rubbed and scuffed. Some losses to backstrips. Wear to headcaps and tailcaps with the tailcap of volume six mostly detached. All boards attached with rubbing along joints and some joints and hinges starting/cracked. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges toned. Some volumes with shelf lean, but stand straight when set together as a set on the shelf. Text blocks very clean with light toning and occasional foxing, and some sporadic marks. Vii-x mostly detached in volume one, very loosely attached with one binding string at the bottom. very small hole over the number 5 in the pagination of pp.587/588 in volume six. Small mark on the first index page in volume eight, text still legible.
