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Previous owner's signature. Finely bound set in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Spine bands and panel edges nicked and rubbed. Remains particularly well preserved set internally. Physical description: 12v, plates (some folded): ill., maps, port; 8vo. Notes: Printer's details, t.p. verso: Plummer and Brewis, Printers, Love-Lane, Little-Eastcheap. Portrait of Gibbon, frontis to v.1. Subjects: Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Genre: History. Rome. 4 Kg.

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.