The History of England from the accession of James the second in Ten Volumes: Vol 1. - 10.; Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition by Thomas Babington Macaulay Published by Leibzig Bernhard Tauchnitz in 1849 -1860 Original Leather Binding in Very Good Condition, without any writings! The complete work in original leather hard binding in such condition is scarce! Pages: Tome I: X + 438, Tome II: X + 413, Tome III: XII + 466, Tome IV: VIII + 332 Tome V: VIII + 344 Tome VI: VIII + 299 Tome VII: VIII + 347 Tome VIII: VIII + 335 Tome IX: VIII + 280 Tome X:: 280 The History of England from the Accession of James the Second is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England. It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death. Macaulay's approach to writing the History was innovative for his period. He consciously fused the picturesque, dramatic style of classical historians such as Thucydides and Tacitus with the learned and factual approach of his 18th-century precursors such as Hume, following the plan laid out in his own 1828 "Essay on History". The History is famous for its prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history.