Historical Essays by the Late Edward A. Freeman.
FREEMAN, Edward A.
Historical Essays by the Late Edward A. Freeman.
Historical Essays by the Late Edward A. Freeman; finely bound by Sotheran & Co.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1896.
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Finely bound fifth edition of the collected essays of Edward A. Freeman. Octavo, four volumes, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco by Sotheran, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition. Bookplate.
English historian and architectural artist Edward Augustus Freeman was a leading Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister William Gladstone, as well as a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans were activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1874–1878) against the Ottoman Empire. After the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the fourth volume of his History of Sicily. He was a prolific writer, publishing 239 distinct works. One of his best known is his magnum opus, The History of the Norman Conquest of England (published in 6 volumes, 1867–1879).
