BIB_ID
125063
Accession number
MA 252
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
[1840].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1895.
Description
1 item (ca. 87 p.), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 41.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed by Macvey Napier, editor of The Edinburgh Review, on the verso of the final page: "Octr. 2nd / A proof of this / M.N."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1895.
Summary
The autograph manuscript of Macaulay's review of Sarah Austin's English translation of Leopold Ranke's The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome, during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (London, 1840). This review appeared in The Edinburgh Review in Oct. 1840.
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