historically, their chief importance is that they proved that care and enthusiasm for fine printing was re-awakening, and that printers with high ideals would not lack support.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
He lived in an historically attractive age.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
The fact is that although historically the position of the House of Lords may have been the consequence of its hereditary, non-representative character, it is now doomed to its present condition by the inexorable logic of a political system.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell