Nov 11, 2004 - Sale 2022

Sale 2022 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SETS AND BINDINGS.) Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Engraved portrait of Gibbon after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume One. 3 engraved maps. 6 volumes. Half-titles lacking in first 3 volumes, present in the rest. Errata leaves as called for in first 2 volumes. 4to, 280x220 mm, contemporary tree calf, attractively rebacked, occasional wear to spine ends, endpapers renewed; scattered foxing. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1781-88

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Fourth edition of the first volume, first edition of the rest. Rothschild 942; Printing and the Mind of Man 222.