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Volumes 1-3 2nd Editions; Vols. 4-6 1st Editions. 6 vols. 4to. Half title present to volume 1. Engraved port. frontis. [Lacking 3 folding maps]. Light browning and occasional foxing, sporadic light marginal waterstain to volume 2., contemporary calf boards with double gilt rule to borders and edges, Grenville copy with blind armorial stamp to boards. some minor marking and wear, some restoration work to corners, professionally rebacked in modern calf with gilt motifs and gilt filleted raised bands, gilt lettered labels to spines, handsome set. Volume 1. Norton 21. ESTC T78357 With a half-title. Vols. 1-3 only were issued in a second edition. Preface dated June 1, 1776. ; Volume 2 Norton 25 They are reissues of the first editions with cancel half titles and titles . ESTC T78360 With a half-title [not present in our copy]. With marginal notes. With a final errata leaf for vol.2. With two folding maps: "A map of the eastern part of the Roman Empire" and "A map of the parts of Europe and Asia adjacent to Constantinople". [not in our copy]. Issued at the same time as vol.3 (ESTC T78362). Some copies may contain [12] p. of contents to vol.1 and a final errata leaf for vol.3 [not in our copy]. Leaf G1 signed *G and 2L1 signed *Ll. ; Volume 3 Norton as volume 2; ESTC T78363 With a half-title [not in our copy] and a final leaf of errata. A reissue of the first edition of 1781. Vols. 1-3 only issued in a second edition. ; Volumes 3-6 Norton 29. ESTC No T78365; The three volumes were issued at the same time. With a half-title to each volume [not in our set]. With a page of errata to all three volumes at end of v.6 on verso of 4U1.With a 'General Index' at end of v.6. Vol.6 has a final blank leaf [not in our copy]. US$3355.

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.