Tan calf binding with black and red title plates, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume. All have part of front pastedown removed.

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Lovely leather Bound. Condition: Very good. H: 7″, D: 5″, W: 1 1/4″ 3 Volumes. Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages. Bound in a full tree calf. Please view the photographs. London: John Murray, 1860. Note: all three volumes have part of the front pastedown removed. This removal obscures the notation of the original Victorian owner, a distant member of the House of Hanover – hence, the £200 price reduction.

Henry Hallam FRS FRSE FSA FRAS (9 July 1777 – 21 January 1859) was an English historian. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit for some years before turning to history. His major works were View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages (1818), The Constitutional History of England (1827), and Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1837). Although he took no part in politics himself, he was well acquainted with the band of authors and politicians who led the Whig party. In an 1828 review of Constitutional History, Robert Southey claimed that the work was biased in favour of the Whigs.

Hallam was a fellow of the Royal Society, and a trustee of the British Museum. In 1830 he received the gold medal for history founded by George IV.

Hallam described his work Middle Ages as a series of historical dissertations for the period from the 5th to the 15th century. The work consists of nine long chapters: the histories of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and of the Greek and Saracenic empires, fill five chapters. Others deal with major institutional features of medieval society: the feudal system, the ecclesiastical system, and the political system of England. The last chapter sketches society, commerce, manners, and literature in the Middle Ages.