The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

$8,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776-1788. Complete in six volumes. All First Editions except volume 1, which is a Second Edition. Large quarto. Full contemporary mid-brown calf with early 20th century rebacks vol. 1 fully renewed at the same time and replaced endpapers, raised bands, red lettering piece and black numbering piece. Tips worn and exposed, boards edge-worn. Sporadic light foxing throughout. A handful of

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