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“The HistoryOf The Conquest Of Mexico”, With A Preliminary View Of The Ancient Mexican Civilization,And The Conqueror, Hernando Cortes In Three Volumes. By William H. Prescott. 3 Volumeset, “Complete”. Antiquarian IllustratedHardcover. Copyright: 1892 (Not Stated), by David McKay. Published: 1892 by DavidMcKay, Publishers, Philadelphia. Hardcover bound with contemporary3/4 calf leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering andtooling to spines. Marbled endpapers. Top Text-block edges are gold gilt.Tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. No dust Jacket. Pages: 430pp (Vol. 1); 402pp (Vol. 2);448pp (Vol. 3). Measures: 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches.
\"From aninternet search\": Originally published in 1843, this pioneering study presents acompelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in LatinAmerica to this day. \"Regarded simply from the standpoint of literarycriticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott\'s masterpiece,\" judged hisbiographer Harry Thurston Peck. \"More than that, it is one of the mostbrilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art appliedto historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded indelineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama notonly live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they musthave been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually cometo know in the pages of Prescott. . . . Over against these brilliant figuresstands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, onefeels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero ofGreek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yetstriving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . Prescotttransmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument ofpure literature.
Thisis a nice Antiquarian Illustrated set of books of The History Of The ConquestOf Mexico. This would be a nice addition or gift for any History of theConquest of Mexico, or William H. Prescott fan or collector.
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