1881-2 8vols History of the Romans Under Empire by Charles Merivale

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1881-2 8vols History of the Romans Under Empire by Charles Merivale:
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History of the Romans Under theEmpire

In Eight Volumes

By Charles Merivale

1881-2 - London - Longmans, Green, and Co.

7\" by 4.5\"; (xviii) 438pp [+10pp]; (ix) 457pp; [+12pp]; (viii) 471pp [+12pp]; (vii) 428pp [+12pp]; (vii) 422pp [+12pp]; (viii) 453pp [+12pp]; (viii) 416pp [+12pp]; (viii) 478pp [+12pp].

DETAILS

A set of History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale.

Complete in eight volumes.

Volumes I, II, V and VII contain fold-out maps to the front of the volumes.

New edition.

The Very Reverend Charles Merivale (8 March 1808 – 27 December 1893) was an English historian and churchman, for many years dean of Ely Cathedral. He was one of the main instigators of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race which took place at Henley in 1829.

Merivale was ordained deacon in 1833 and priest in 1834 and undertook college and university work successfully. He was appointed select preacher at Whitehall in 1839. In 1848 he took the college living of Lawford, near Manningtree, in Essex. He was appointed chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons in 1863. In 1869, he declined the professorship of modern history at Cambridge, but in the same year accepted from Gladstone the deanery of Ely, and until his death devoted himself to the best interests of the cathedral, also receiving many honorary academical distinctions.

His principal work was A History of the Romans under the Empire, in eight volumes, which came out between 1850 and 1862. He wrote several smaller historical works, and published sermons, lectures and Latin verses. Merivale as an historian cannot be compared with Edward Gibbon, but he takes an eminently common-sense and appreciative view. The chief defect of his work, inevitable at the time it was composed, is that he relies on literary gossip rather than on factual evidence. The dean was an elegant scholar, and his rendering of the Hyperion of John Keats into Latin verse (1862) has received high praise.

CONDITION

In embossed brown cloth bindings with gilt lettering to the spines. Externally, generally smart, lightly rubbed in places. There is some damage to the tops and tails of the spines. Spines are sunned. Corners are slightly bumped. Front joint is slightly cracked on volume VIII. Internally, generally firmly bound. Foxed to the first and last few pages but otherwise fairly clean with some scattered light foxing. Some of the pages are uncut. There is an ink inscription to the half-title page in volumes III, IV and V and to the recto of front free-end papers in volumes I andII. Overall: VERY GOOD.

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