![]() ![]() ![]() Note: Presentation copy from the author.The two volume work is a published version of the lecture course outlined in the plan.The publication situation is a bit complicated by later editions of the lectures, sometimes with an additional volume by different other authors bringing the coverage up to 1820 and later the 1840s and 1850s.Additionally we hold bundles of unsorted, or comparatively unsorted manuscripts of Tytler.Often in the enquiries we receive we are provided with a 'quote' (see below) from Tytler referring to the steps that a democracy can go thro' prior to its fall but this is not in the General history. To which are added a table of chronology and a comparative view of ancient and modern geography. Note: Presentation copy from the author.Elements of general history, ancient and modern. ![]() but it is not.Clarifying a bit more, the earliest published works of Tytler that we have are:Plan and outlines of a course of lectures on universal history, ancient and modern, delivered in the University of Edinburgh. (which we DO have) has been checked on the off-chance that The decline and fall might have been a chapter title. However, this title is not in our Library holdings, nor does it appear in the stocks of the other major research libraries in the UK (according to the 'union' catalogue COPAC).Locally, the chapters of Tytler's General history. Was it in The decline and fall of the Athenian Republic?Edinburgh University Library occasionally receives enquiries, particularly from North America, about this particular work. I did check on Edinburgh web site and found the following.From the of Edinburgh web site inquiries., Alexander Fraser (Lord Woodhouselee)Do you have in print or electronic form something called The decline and fall of the Athenian Republic (1776) by a supposed Edinburgh University History Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee)?I've heard of a quotation by Alexander Fraser Tytler about the lifespan of democracy. ![]()
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