Description

Two volume set in full leather binding. First editions of the first two volumes of Hume’s monumental history of Britain, these focussing on the Stuart monarchs, James I and II and Charles up to the Revolution of 1688. Quarto  vi., 473pp, v., 459pp. Signature to front pastedowns. Front endpaper to volume  of the chemist, author and politician J. Arnold Fleming with a shelf mark for his library. No other inscriptions. The first volume was printed in Edinburgh but the London publisher  Millar took over from  the second volume and followed through covering the subsequent instalments. In effect these two volumes conclude the History although the earlier periods were published later. Full leather bindings with raised bands  worn to corners, spines and spine edges but bindings holding. Front endpaper a little loose to volume 1 otherwise a Good+  set.