The first publication of his History was greeted with outrage by all political factions, but it became a best-seller, finally giving him the financial independence he had long sought. Both the British Library and the Cambridge University Library, as well as Hume's own library, still list him as "David Hume, the historian."[2] Hume's History spanned "from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688" and went through over 100 editions.