A HIGH QUALITY STEEL ENGRAVING BOOKPLATE FROM THE 1860's!!

PERFECT FOR FRAMING AS AN ART PRINT FOR YOUR DEN !!

VERY ANTIQUE & OLD WORLD LOOKING. ITEM(s) OVER 135 YEARS OLD!!

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-59), was a British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume History of England. Macaulay was born on October 25, 1800, at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, and educated at the University of Cambridge. A precocious child and literary prodigy, he began to write poetry and a world history before he was ten years of age. In college he became known as a debater, a conversationalist, and a classical scholar. His essay on the English poet John Milton was published (1825) in the Edinburgh Review, one of the most notable literary magazines of the period, and Macaulay was thereafter one of the best-known and most popular contributors to that publication. In 1830 Macaulay entered the House of Commons. Following the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832 and a Whig victory, he was appointed a commissioner of the Board of Control of Indian Affairs. Two years later he became a member of the Supreme Council of India, created by the India Act of 1834; he spent four years in India, devoting his time chiefly to reforming the criminal code of the colony and to instituting an educational system based on that of Great Britain. In 1839, a year after his return to England, Macaulay resumed his political career and was again elected to Parliament; he also served as secretary of war from 1839 to 1841.

Macaulay wrote continually during his period of political service. In 1842 he completed Lays of Ancient Rome, a collection of poems in ballad form, retelling legends of the beginning of the Roman Republic; he subsequently published Essays (1843), in three volumes. For the next three years he worked on a comprehensive history of England from the accession of King James II. The first two volumes of the History of England from the Accession of James the Second were finished in 1848 and at once achieved a huge success. In 1852 Macaulay was again voted into Parliament, but because of a weak heart he took little part in political activity and continued to spend most of his time writing. The third and fourth volumes of his history were published in 1855, with an even greater success than the first two. The writer was created Baron Macaulay of Rothley in 1857. He died on December 28, 1859, in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey. The last completed volume of his history, relating events until 1702, was published posthumously in 1861.

SIZE: Image size is 5 1/2" x 7 1/2", overall page size is 7" x 10".

CONDITION: Excellent Condition. Reverse side of print is blank.

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An engraving is an intaglio process of printing, with the design to be produced is cut below the surface of the plate (made of copper, steel or wood), and the incised lines are filled with ink that is then transferred to paper. The portraits on our currency are good examples of engraved images. A Photogravure is an intaglio process in which the plate is produced photographically. The item(s) being sold is an image on paper made from the original master and IS NOT a block of wood or steel.

THIS IS AN ACTUAL PRINT FROM THE 1860's !

NOT A REPRODUCTION!