Description: GOOD to FAIR CONDITION This sale is for a vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “An Autobiography & Other Essays,” by G. M. Trevelyan, O.M., with a frontispiece portrait. It was published by Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., of London, and is the 1949 FIRST EDITION (stated). George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962), was an English historian. His father was Sir George Otto Trevelyan and he was the great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literature. The contents include: · Autobiography of an Historian · History and the Reader · Bias in History · Stray Thoughts on History (1948) · The Call and Claims of Natural Beauty · Social Life in Roman Britain · The Coming of the Anglo-Saxons · Religion and Poetry · Cromwell’s Statue · Milton’s Areopagiticia, 1644 · The Two-Party Systems in English Political History · Influence of Sir Walter Scott on History · Jonathan Swift · Friends Lost o Sit John Clapham o Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond o Denys Arthur Winstanley The book measures 8.75 inches x 5.8 inches and has 237 pages. The book is in internally neat condition for its age, with minor wear and is grubby/faded to the original cloth hardback cover, with bumped top corners, a previous owner’s signature at the front, light foxing near the covers/rims, a slight odour of tobacco and no other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing pages. There is no dust-jacket. A good reading copy of this vintage FIRST EDITION. COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/‘shipping’ for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice. Please click on “View Sellers Other Items” towards the top right hand side of this page for other vintage editions. Buyer to pay postage & packing For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £3.10;or 1st Class = £3.90 European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB Pounds Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 10.70 GB Pounds Unwinsbooks always obtain a proof of postage receipt from the Royal Mail. Packages over Royal Mail size rules may be sent by courier (customer will be informed). Goods will be WELL PACKAGED by Unwins Books and dispatched once payment has cleared.
Price: 11 GBP
Location: Shaftesbury, Dorset
End Time: 2025-01-16T16:52:51.000Z
Shipping Cost: 16.84 GBP
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Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
Year Printed: 1949
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Fiction Subject: n/a
Author: G. M. Trevelyan
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