"The Lessons of History: Lectures on Modern History and the French and American Revolutions" by William Smyth, abridged & edited by Wallace Brockway, foreword by Bernard M. Baruch, published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1955. First American Edition, stated First Printing.

Original dust jacket with un-clipped price on the front flap [some wear and small damages: see photos]; hard boards, original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine; 6" x 9.1/2"; name of former owner on the front endpaper, 461 pages including Index, very good/ fine condition.

The book contains abridged "Lectures on Modern History" (1840-1841) with abridged American and French Revolutions (1840 & 1841) in one volume.

William Smyth (1765-1849) was an English poet and historian, who became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1807.

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