• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The history of England : from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in MDCLXXXVIII. In six volumes, illustrated with plates. By David Hume, Esq. To which is prefixed a short account of his life, written by himself
  • Contributor: Hume, David [Author]; Sweitzer, Henry [printer.]; Seymour, Joseph H. [engraver.]; Folwell, Richard [printer.]; Campbell, Robert [publisher.]; Scot, Robert [engraver.]; Allardice, Samuel [engraver.]; Smith, Samuel Harrison [printer.]
  • imprint: Philadelphia: Printed for Robert Campbell; by Samuel H. Smith, 1795-1796
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Issue: A new edition, with the author's last corrections and improvements
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (6v); ill; 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Hume, David 1711-1776 ; Hume, David 1711-1776 Portraits ; Great Britain History ; Great Britain Kings and rulers Portraits
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "Subscribers' names."--v. 6, p. [148-152], 2nd count
    English Short Title Catalog, W27452
    Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 378 misnumbered 278; v. 3, p. 396 misnumbered 376; v. 4, p. 87, 342, 461, 473-480 and 484 misnumbered 69, 322, 361, 373-380 and 481; v. 5, p. 441 misnumbered 445; v. 6, p. 212 misnumbered 112
    Evans, 28867
    Evans, 30602
    Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library
    Vol. 1 has frontispiece portrait of David Hume; v. 2-6 have frontispiece portraits of Henry IV, Elizabeth I, James I, Oliver Cromwell, and James II. Portrait of Elizabeth engraved by Joseph H. Seymour; other portraits engraved by Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice
    Vol. 1: xxiii, [1], 526, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: viii, 520 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: [8], 536 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 4: [8], 504 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 5: vii, [1], 488 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 6: [8], 293, [155] p., [1] leaf of plates
    Vols. 3-6 dated 1796. Vols. 1,2 and 4 printed by Samuel H. Smith; v. 3 and 6 by Henry Sweitzer; v. 5 by Richard Folwell