Three volumes, later impressions. Octavo. Finely bound by Hatchard in half red morocco, lettered and decorated gilt.
 
A bright, near fine set, small mark to the lower cover of the second volume.
 
A beautifully bound set of the historian G.M Trevelyan’s greatest work:
 
“It depicted Garibaldi as a Carlylean hero—poet, patriot, and man of action—whose inspired leadership created the Italian nation. For Trevelyan, Garibaldi was the champion of freedom, progress, and tolerance, who vanquished the despotism, reaction, and obscurantism of the Austrian empire and the Neapolitan monarchy” (David Cannadine).