Volumes 3 & 4 have one detached cover & some rubbing on spines. ; This set is complete with index at rear of volume 4. Marbled edges and end-papers on all volumes. On the whole the pages are very clean. Lord Macaulay begins his historical essays from the year of 1825 on Milton thru the 4th volume ending with the Earl of Chatham (Oct. 1844) . As a picturesque narrator of great events Lord Macaulay had no rival. ; 1836pp pages

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