Hardbacks, five volume set (2 volumes per book) put out by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1898. Temple Bar Edition, numbered 57 of 1,000 printed. Gilt lettering and designs on spines, gilt top edge.
The complete works of British historian, poet and Whig politician.
FrayFront cover's inside spines are beginning to become detatched, has some material loss, especially the first volume.