Short Studies on Great Subjects.

FROUDE, James Anthony.

Item Number: 138465

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1868.

Finely bound  edition of Froude’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full polished tree calf with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.

English historian and biographer James Anthony Froude became one of the best known historians of his time with the publication of his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Inspired by Thomas Carlyle, Froude's historical writings were often fiercely polemical, earning him a number of outspoken opponents. Froude continued to be controversial up until his death for his Life of Carlyle, which he published along with personal writings of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.