"THE CLASSIC HISTORY OF THE MOMENTOUS REVOLT OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES… A BRILLIANT STUDY OF THE GROWTH OF CIVIL LIBERTY"

TREVELYAN, George Otto. The Early History of Charles James Fox. WITH: The American Revolution. Four volumes. WITH: George the Third and Charles Fox. The Concluding Part of the American Revolution. Two volumes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880-1914. In all, seven uniformly bound volumes. Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. $3000.

Complete first edition set, with eight large folding maps, handsomely bound by Bickers & Son.

Trevelyan published The Early History of Charles James Fox in 1880. Months later, he became Secretary of the Admiralty and gave up writing to attend to his duties; he did not finish the complete work—with The American Revolution and George the Third and Charles Fox—until more than thirty years later. This important history recounts events from the years 1766 through 1778, beginning with the repeal of the Stamp Act and concluding with the French treaties and war between France and England. Trevelyan's history of the American Revolution "grew naturally out of his studies in the life of Charles James Fox, and both interests derived from his own position as a Whig and a liberal. Trevelyan, an Englishman, succeeded in writing the classic history of the momentous revolt of the American colonies. It is highly favorable to the American side… and is in reality a brilliant study of the growth of civil liberty, with the birth of the United States of America serving as an object lesson" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 629). The complete history is divided into parts: "1766-1776" (three volumes), "Saratoga and Brandywine, Valley Forge, England and France at War" (one volume) and George the Third and Charles Fox, the concluding part (two volumes), accompanied by The Early History of Charles James Fox. Bookplates.

Traces of shelfwear. A very nice set of the entire series (not often found together), handsomely bound.