January 25, 2008

Item of the Day: Smollett’s History of England (1766)

Full Title:  Continuation of the Complete History of England by T[obias] Smollett, M. D. [In two volumes]  Volume the First.  London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row.  MDCCLXVI.
 [A continuation of David Hume's History of England]
George II.
The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, however unstable or inglorious it might appear to those few who understood the interests, [...]