John Robert Seeley — Lectures and Essays

London, Macmillan and Co, 1870. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Modern History Professor J. R. Seeley's collected lectures and essays. The very scarce first edition of Sir John Robert Seeley's 'Lectures and Essays' in the half calf school prize binding of Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham.Appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in 1869, Seeley's lectures were notoriously well attended, partly as he valued history solely in its relation to politics as the science of the state. In his lectures, he maintains that history should be studied scientifically and for practical purposes as 'the solution of existing political questions&apos.Lecture and essay titles include 'Roman Imperialism', 'Milton's Political Opinions', 'Liberal Education in Universities' and 'The Church as a Teacher or Morality&apos. In a quarter calf school prize binding, with cloth covered boards. Light fading to back strip, with rubbing to board extremities and back strip head and tail. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd patch of spotting. Very Good . Ill.: John Robert Seeley. Very Good .