Gibbon

1896 · réf. AQ35125 — London: John Murray 1896. In two volumes. xii 400pp; 2 430pp. With half-titles and silhouette portrait frontispiece to Vol. II. Contemporary half-calf tooled in gilt and blind brown cloth boards contrasting black and brown morocco lettering-pieces marbled edges and endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked some spotting and staining spines sunned. Later inked ownership inscriptions of R. Donald Fraser to blank fly-leaves of both volumes occasional light spotting and browning. The first edition of the collected correspondence of Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 British essayist historian and politician best known for his influential classical study The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1789. The work was edited by Rowland Edmund Prothero First Baron Ernle 1851-1937 best known for his work as an agricultural writer and inventor and his service as President of the Board of Agriculture under David Lloyd George. . First edition. 8vo. John Murray hardcover