Title: Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. Author: Henry Hallam, F.R.A.S., Foreign Associate of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in the French Institute. Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street. Publication date: 1854. Edition: 4th Edition. Origin: London. Description: 1830 Pp. (V1; 575 p., V2; 589 p., V3; 666 p.). 8vo. Complete in 3 volumes. Finely bound full leather hardcovers, title gilt stamped on spine cover with 5 raised bands, bordered in gilt compartments on spine and boards accented with dentelle edges, matched marble leaf edges and endpapers, silk ribbon markers. Measures: 1.75 (5 overall) W x 6 D x 8.75 H inches. Approx. weight: 6 pounds, 14 ounces. About the author and work: Henry Hallam FRS FRSE FSA (1777 – 1859) was an English historian. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he practiced 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 favor of the Whigs.