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How many copies of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England were sold in the United Kingdom during its first generation?
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Within the generation following its first appearance, more than 140,000 copies of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England had been sold in the United Kingdom.1