Beacon Lights of History (Lord's Lectures), in Five Volumes - Vols. 1-5: Antiquity; The Middle Ages; Renaissance and Reformation; Warriors and Statesmen; Great Women

Original half-leather, leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations. This set, based on historical lectures given by John Lord, was published in various forms. The two volumes of the 'first series' (not included here) deal with pagan and Jewish traditions. These five volumes represent volumes one through five of what would become a larger set of thirteen, which also comprised an index of the full work, so the most complete editions of this are in fifteen volumes. Most notable is the volume on important women in history, which discusses significant women from Cleopatra to George Eliot. Includes: Antiquity; The Middle Ages; Renaissance and Reformation; Warriors and Statesmen; Great Women.