Books

12 volumes. 8vo, pp. lx, 456; xv[ xvi blank], 496; viii, 443 [444 blank]; ix [x blank],432; x, 420; xi [xii blank], xii, 424; xii, 375 [376 blank]; xii, 502; xii, 385 [386 blank]; xii, 460; xvi, 432 [433 - 524 Index], including half-titles, engraved portrait in volume 1, folding engraved maps in volumes 1, 2, and 3, original boards, uncut, paper labels on spines; first gathering mis-folded in volume 1, front joint volumes 5, 6 cracked and tender, other wear to spines and joints. Not in Norton.

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.