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12 volumes. Bound in full brown leather (tree calf) with gold decorations on the spine. Spine labels in maroon and black. Marbled foreedges and endpapers. Bindings are signed on the front endpaper "Bickers & Son London." Volume 1 has xlvi + 478 pages. Front cover detached but present. Folding map facing page 1. The 'directions to the binder' page calls for a map of the Western Empire, but that map is not present. Bookplate of Albert F. Madlener on the inside front cover. Volume 2 has 502 pages. Volume 3 has 404 pages. Volume 4 has 422 pages. Volume 5 has 412 pages with a folding map at the rear. Volume 6 has 397 pages with a folding map at the rear. Volume 7 has 426 pages with a folding map at the rear. Volume 8 has 376 pages with a folding map at the rear. Volume 9 has 495 pages with a folding map at the front. Volume 10 has 371 pages with a folding map at the front. Front cover detached but present. Volume 11 has 447 pages with a folding map at the front. Front cover loose. Volume 12 has 527 pages with a folding map at the front. All the maps have some detail or outlines in color. Gibbon's Decline and Fall was first published from 1776-1789 and has been in print continually since then. This set is in quite good condition, with 2 detached boards and one loose one. Bindings tight. Text clean. Attractive on the shelf, but with minor chips. Please email to request a photo. The bookplates, present on the inside front cover of each volume, have the name Albert F. Madlener. Madlener was a brewer in Chicago. His house is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is considered a key Prairie School building; it was designed by Richard Schmidt and Hugh Garden. The house was built in 1902.

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.