Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] — Speeches of Lord Macaulay

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. Leather. A smartly bound new edition of this collection of speeches from British historian, poet, and politician Lord Macaulay. New edition. A collection of speeches by Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War and as the Paymaster General. Corrected and edited by himself. Covering subjects such as: Parliamentary Reform, Anatomy Bill, Repeal of the Union with Ireland, Government of India, War with China, Corn Laws, and the Literature of Britain, amongst others. Previously held in the library of Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, a British Jewish banker, politician and philanthropist who was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. He became the first practising Jew to sit as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Bound by H. Sotheran & Co. London. Bound in half calf with cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light spotting to the endpapers with previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Bound by H. Sotheran & Co. London. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .