Books

12 volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 16, [xxi] - xxxi [xxxii blank], 456; xi [xii blank], 486; vii [viii blank], 409 [410 blank]; vii [viii blank], 438; vii [viii blank], 427 [428 blank]; viii, 411 [412 blank]; viii, viii, 423 [424 blank]; viii, 375 [376 blank]; ix [x blank], 503 [504 blank]; ix [x blank], 382; x, 450; xi [xii blank], 508, engraved portrait of Gibbon in volume 1, engraved folding map in volume 3, contemporary half calf, gilt spines, red morocco labels, marbled boards; text a little browned. Norton 67.

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.