Books

Six quarto volumes. Mixed set, first three volumes new editions (1782, 1787, 1787), last three volumes are first editions (1788). Handsomely rebacked and recornered. Three fold out maps (two in Volume 2, one in Volume 3). Occasional scattered foxing, one tear along corner in Volume 5 (pg. 341), else very good.

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.