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London, John Murray, 1855. Complete Eight Volumes. Hardback, 8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In full calf leather fine bindings by “W. NUTT,” with gilt and embossed decorative board edging, raised banding and full gilt decorations to spine. Twin red & black leather spine labels. Full marbled edging & endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks, some minor marks to boards, some minor rubbing to corners and edges. Bookplates to front endpapers “Alexander Stone.” Very good clean and tight copies. Prelims and pages all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Some minor offsetting to folded maps. Maps all very clean and neat. Else an excellent clean and tight set. 8 vols: Illustrated with 14 fold-out maps and plans (B&W, some with colouring), engraved frontis portrait of the Author. The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th.century, it was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. The books cover the…

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.