Complete Eight-Volume Set of "The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century from the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time"
James Taylor, The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century from the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, London: William Mackenzie, [1888?]
Decorative cloth bindings with gilt text-block edges and all edges gilt (each)
10.5 x 7.5 in (each)
Volume I: 240pp including engraved plates of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; Duke of Wellington; George Canning; Earl Grey; Windsor Castle; Battle of Navarino
Volume II: 241-480pp including engraved plates of Lord Melbourne; Earl Russell; Lord Brougham; Daniel O'Connell; Bristol during the Riots 1831; Sebastopol
Volume III: 240pp including engraved plates of General Sir Robert Sale; Lord Clyde; Sir Robert Peel; Richard Cobden; Balaclava - Charge of the Light Brigade; Cabul
Volume IV: 241-471pp including engraved plates of Thomas Carlyle; Lord Palmerston; John Bright; Rev. Thomas Chalmers; Delhi; Calcutta
Volume V: 248pp including engraved plates of Major General Sir Henry Havelock; George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen; Napoleon III; Francis Joseph; Lucknow; Colour "Plan of the Siege of Sebastopol"; Colour "Plan of Lucknow"
Volume VI: 250-368pp, 120pp including engraved plates of Benjamin Disraeli; Abraham Lincoln; Bismarck; Garibaldi; Kars; Colour "Plan of Delhi"; Colour "Plan of Battle of Cawnpoor"
Volume VII: 121-360pp including engraved plates of Earl Granville; Major General Charles George Gordon; Major General Sir Herbert Stewart; St. Petersburg; Alexandria
Volume VIII: 361-648pp including engraved plates of Arthur Balfour; John Morley; Joseph Chamberlain; Field Marshal the Rt. Hon. Viscount Wolseley; F.T. Blackwood, Marquis of Dufferin; Cairo from the Citadel; Colour "Map of the Nile Provinces."
A new and enlarged edition, supplied to subscribers only.
From the introduction at the beginning of Volume I: "If then the lesson of the past is clearly that the future will be the domain of intellect, it cannot be doubted that the recent history of the world, of warlike achievements reminding us of the heroic age, of political progress and social experiments which suggest the main outlines of the age to come, of the conquests of science, the achievements of art, the precious fruits of invention and discovery, is an essential part of our equipment for the battle of life. To supply this in a shape at once compact and interesting is the purpose of the present work, which is designed to form the needed link between what is generally known as history and the events now passing around us. It traces the rise of the systems of government which now prevail throughout the leading countries of the world, showing the steady extension of the representative institutions first adopted in Britain, and the but recently completed extinction of slavery among civilized nations. It records the foundation of new communities by colonization in distant parts of the globe, and the remarkable growth and progress of the great self-governing colonies of England, and of the chartered companies which are yet engaged in opening fresh fields for future enterprise in several parts of the globe, as well as the introduction of European methods among the historic countries of the East, and the development of the British Empire in India."
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