Lot 57
Gibbon, Edward
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£478
Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: printed for Lackington, Allen and Co, 1815. New edition, 8vo, 12 volumes, portrait frontispiece (offset onto title of volume one), folding map, contemporary diced calf gilt, some slight cracking to hinges, some corners bumped, some foxing to endpapers, interiors in the majority clean (12)
Footnote
Note: An attractive set of a classic work in contemporary calf.