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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (3 only of 6 vol.)

by GIBBON, Edward [1737 - 1794]

2nd

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Book desription: London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell,, 1776 - 1781. 2nd. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to 11/5" x 9.5" (290 x 240 mm). Half-titles in all 3 volumes. three folding engraved maps (2 in vol. 2, 1 in vol. 3), . Some offseting and occastional spotting in volumeOriginal leather spines, boards and marbled end papers. Spines tooled with elaborate design including the date and dragon head gold embossed. Boards weak but holding on all 3 volumes. A very good set in unrestored original bindings.Vol. 1 - 1781 Vol. I is Volume the First, the second edition, issued almost immediately after the first. Preface 4pp, Contents 3pp [blank] 586, [2], lxxxviii, (more offsetting in the notes section than normal). Vol. 2 - 1781 Volume the Second engraved frontispiece portrait of Gibbon after Joshua Reynolds, dated 1 February 1780, Title page, Table of Content 5pp, [blank] , full-sheet map of the Eastern Roman Empire by Thomas Kitchen, 640; half-sheet folding map of the Propontis,p22, [1 errata], [1 blank],  Vol. 3 -1781 Volume the Third Contents 7pp, [1 blank], full-sheet folding map of the Western Roman Empire by Thomas Kitchen, 640; [blank] errata, List of contents for vol.1-12p, ads for Cadell books 8pp. p.177 correctly numbered and p.179, line 18 reading 'Honorious'; , Ormathwaite book plate. Possibly Sir John Benn Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (1798Ôoˆ1881) The Benn/Walsh family were created Lords Ormathwaite in 1868Interesting there are only three volumes to this set (of six potential volumes) Perhaps, if there were six volumes they were sold off separately as part of the financial troubles Sir JohnÔoˆs son, Aurthur John Walsh, (1848 - 1920) 2nd Baron caused in 1895., Decline and Fall ranks as a 'masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style' and despite the numerous later works devoted to this voluminous subject remains 'the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which continues to be reprinted and actually read' (PMM).Grolier English 58; Norton 20, 23, 29; PMM 222; Rothschild 942.

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