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London; Oxford: William Pickering, Talboys and Wheeler, 1827. First Pickering, Oxford English Classics, edition. Portrait frontispiece to first volume. 8 vols. 8vo. Three quarter green morocco with gilt borders and spine compartments, teg, marbled endpapers, light scattered foxing to first and last pages, ownership signature (T. Cary) to each title page. First Pickering, Oxford English Classics, edition. Portrait frontispiece to first volume. 8 vols. 8vo. Gibbon's magnum opus, written and published over a 13-year period beginning in 1776. This edition comprises part of Pickering's Oxford English Classics published in conjuction with Talboys and Wheeler from 1825-8.

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.