![]() ![]() His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years. "For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day and the result was clothed in inimitable prose" (PMM). "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works. Provenance: "Granville Hastings Wheler" (signature on titlepage and book plate) First edition: arguably the greatest historical work written in the English language. With four leaves of advertisements at the end of volume III (as noted in Norton).Ĭontemporary full calf, spines richly gilt in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece in the second, green morocco lettering piece in the fourth, marbled endpapers. ![]() ![]() With the expanded volume one table of contents issued with volume two here bound in volume three and with the volume three errata issued in volume two here bound into volume three (as often). With all the half titles and the errata leaves in volumes I, II, III, and VI (volume VI errata covers volumes IV, V and VI). Engraved portrait in volume II by Hall after Reynolds (not usually found), 3 engraved folding maps (two in volume II and one in volume III). GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ![]()
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