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8vos. Full calf. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Hall after Reynolds. Folding map in vols I, II, III. Vol. I: xiv, 456 pp.; Vol. II: xv, 496 pp.; Vol. III: viii, 412 pp.; Vol. IV: viii, 443 pp.; Vol. V: vii, 432 pp.; Vol. VI: viii, 420 pp.; Vol. VII: xii, viii, 424 pp.; Vol. VIII: viii, 375 pp.; Vol. IX: xii, 502 pp.; Vol. X: xii, 385 pp.; Vol. XI: xii, 460 pp.; Vol. XII: [15; contents unnumbered], 432 pp., [48; index unnumbered]. Each vol. with bookplate of James Norton of Stokesby, Norfolk and pencil notation of Simon Cuttler of New College, Oxford, with a calling card for Mr. Cuttler laid in. Ink offsetting on rear page of Vol. IV from title page of following vol; a printing error. Fore edge of p. 75 of Vol. X and p. 177 of vol. XII cut improperly and overhang a bit. Very minor scuffing to the leather edges. Small chips to spine headers of vols. V and XII, and a bit of superficial crackling to leather spine of vol. III. All books tight and clean with bright, unfoxed pages. An excellent set. This is a complete set of the first printing of the revised edition of Gibbon's Roman Empire, one of the most significant works of English literature. Gibbon's meticulous scholarship of nearly 1500 years of history remains the standard authority on the subject.

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.