BIB_ID
122553
Accession number
MA 801
Creator
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903.
Display Date
[1863-1865?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (6 v.) ; 39.6 cm
Notes
The manuscript is undated, however the portion of the manuscript titled "On the declining sense of the miraculous" which would become the first two chapters of the book, were written as an essay in 1863 while Lecky was pursuing his MA at Dublin and the completed book was published in 1865.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Sotheby's in 1912.
Summary
Being an autograph manuscript which includes a Table of Contents and an Introduction with substantial additions and revisions throughout.
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