Books

12 volumes. Frontispiece portrait and 2 large folding map. Handsomely bound in contemporary full brown calf; gilt-stamped borders and spines with red leather labels; marbled endpapers and page edges (leather is rubbed and a bit edgeworn in spots; hinge neatly repaired in two volumes, still a quite attractive set). Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute, et al., 1811.

Published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, this extensive work by Edward Gibbon provides a detailed history of the decline of the Roman Empire.