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John Murray,, 1838-1839. 13 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved portrait frontispiece (in 'Life') and 14 engraved maps, (the majority folding and MANY COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE), the maps generally lightly foxed but crisply folded, some mild and occasional offsetting; contemporary plum cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt backs, primrose endpapers, uncut, one volume LARGELY UNOPENED, two volumes expertly recased with original endpapers preserved, backs moderately and uniformly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), fore-edges lightly spotted, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean extended set in largely unrestored publisher's binding. All volumes complete with half-titles; most volumes with publisher's catalogues (variously dated 1838-39) at end, confirming early issue; tenth volume with publisher's advance notice slip (Milman's History of Christianity and Life of Gibbon) mounted facing half-title; twelfth volume with separately…

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.