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The history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688 / by David Hume.

Accession number
146495-504
Creator
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Published
London : Printed by T. Bensley for Robert Bowyer, 1806.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Vol. 1 has added t.p.
"The life of ... Hume, written by himself"--v. 1, p. i-viii.
Originally issued in 70 numbers and sold by subscription.
Illustrated with 196 engravings, including frontispiece, full-page chapter headings and full-page dedications, by Anker Smith, Francesco Bartolozzi, James Fittler, Thomas Milton, John Landseer, William Sharp, James Newton, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, Jean Marie Delatre, [i.e. Delattre], William Skelton, James Stow, William Bromley, Isaac Taylor, Jr., George Noble, E. W. Thomson, Robert Slann, Charles Jagger, Joseph Saunders, Thomas Medland, J. Thompson, James Neagle, James Parker, Luigi Schiavonetti, John Hall, T. Chapman, Wilson Lowry, Thomas Holloway, W. E. Thompson, J. Taylor, E. Thompson, William Henry Worthington, J. G. Walker, Paton Thomson, Roffe, James Chapman, William Thompson, C. Blackberd, James Thompson, Benjamin Thomas Pouncy, Richard Rhodes, Joseph Collyer, William Byrne, and Drayton; after designs by Allan Ramsay, Henry Tresham, Robert Smirke, Edward Francis Burney, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, John Opie, Charles Reuben Ryley, John Landseer, William Hamilton, Richard Westall, Francis Wheatley, Henry Singleton, Benjamin West, Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Hadfield Cosway, Richard Rhodes, Robert Cleveley, J. T. [i.e. John Francis] Rigaud, Henry Fuseli, William Hodges, Thomas Stothard, James Northcote, Farington, Robert Cooper, Serres, and Arthur Pond.
Library's copy illustrated with proof impressions of the engravings printed en chine collé.
Description
5 v. in 10. : ill., ports. ; 51 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Armorial red morocco tooled in gilt.
Classification
Department