The History of England; from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688: by D. Hume ... With a continuation, from that period to the death of George the Second, by Tobias Smollett ... and Chronological Records to the coronation of his present Majesty, George the Fourth, by John Burke ... With numerous engravings. (Historical Questions comprising a series of studies upon the most important passages in Dolby's Universal Histories; commencing with Hume and Smollet's History of England. By Robert Horner.)
A multi-volume popular history of England by David Hume with Smollett's continuation and Burke's chronology, issued by Thomas Dolby in London in 1825 for general readers and students. Small wood-engraved narrative scenes stage battles, assassinations, shipwrecks and royal landings in dark interiors and moonlit streets, useful for period costume, dramatic figure groupings and compact captioned vignettes.
