The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Oxford: Talbots and Wheeler, and William Pickering, 1827.
Large Paper Edition, Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Item #3537
8 vols. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Large Paper Edition, limited to 50 copies. Illustrated portrait frontispieces. Bound in full polished calf leather with gilt frames on covers and elaborately gilt spines. Raised bands on spine, gilt lettering on spine panel compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. From the library of Battle Abbey with label. Published Oxford: Talbots and Wheeler, and William Pickering, 1827.
H: 10” W: 6 1/2” D: 1 3/4”.
Price: $4,500.00
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