View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages.

A handsome three-volume lifetime edition of Henry Hallam's (1777-1859) classic history of the Middle Ages, surveying the political developments of the principal countries of Western Europe, and the constitutions of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England.

View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages was first published in 1818, shortly after Hallam had come into his inheritance, allowing him to devote the remainder of his life to study.

From the library of the Liberal MP Richard Fothergill (1822-1903). He was elected to the House of Commons in 1868 for the constituency of Merthyr Tydfil, following the expansion of the suffrage with the passing of the Second Reform Act the previous year.

Tenth edition; 3 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm); bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., ms notes in pencil to rear endpaper, slight spotting to endpapers otherwise internally crisp and clean; contemporary tan calf, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting black and brown morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges, a little rubbed, very good; xv, [1], 504; vii, [1], 427, [1]; iv 517, [1]pp.