The History of England

The ten years succeeding the publication of the political discourses The composition and publication of the successive volumes of the work, which at length raised Hume to the height of a truly European fame, if it also exposed him to the blasts of adverse criticism at home.

This was his History of England, extending when complete from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688.

Hume had begun by giving to the world his metaphysical and moral speculations.

He had next developed in his essays his theories on taste, on politics, on economics, and had practically completed his message on all these heads.

His second by Andrew Millar, London, who thereafter secured the copyright of both and became the publisher of the subsequent volumes.

Having finished his history of the Stuarts, he reverted to the period of the Tudors, and in 1759 published the two volumes of his History of the House of Tudor.

This was followed at no great interval than 1762 by two other quartos, comprising the history of England from Julius Caesar to the accession of Henry VII.

Quartos, in fact, in this period of phenomenal activity, literally flowed from Hume.