GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794)Biblio.com
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réf. 41318London. Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies Successors to Mr. Cadell in the Strand. 1796. 4to 28.5cm The First Edition in 2 volumes XXV1Errata7031 & viii7262Errata and publishers' ads. in contemporary full diced calf boards panelled with gilt rosettes borders expertly reback in calf with gilt decorated raised bands gilt decorations and borders in the panels gilt titles gilt roll inner dentelles original marbled endpapers and edges inner linen hinges ownership signature on titles "John Jefferys 1811" and armorial bookplate "William Henry Smith" on the front paste-down endpaper frontis silhouette portrait in volume one some occasional light unobtrusive damp staining in the text some occasional wear on the boards a fine set ds1. ~ This is an invaluable autobiography of the controversial historian Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1788. Editor John Baker-Holroyd 1st Earl of Sheffield 1735-1821 Gibbon's close friend and literary executor remarks in the preface: "Few men have ever so fully unveiled their own character by a minute narrative of their sentiments and pursuits with a genuine confession of his little foibles and peculiarities and a good-humoured and natural display of his own conduct and opinions." These memoirs are most interesting for Gibbon's reflections on the development of his 'History' which sparked so much outrage from the public and the Church relative to its historical treatment of Christianity. They are also rich in commentary about his contemporaries and the political regimes in England and Revolutionary France. The two volumes are the first editions; a third volume was published separately in 1815 by John Murray. London. Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies (Successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand. 1796 unknown
1840réf. RGIBHIS01acmfHarper and Brothers 1840. Good. Gibbon Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4 vol. set. Milman notes H. H. NY: Harper and Brothers 1840. 529 464 523 477pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Good with bumped rubbed and faded edges. Marbling faded and pages foxed. Maps are wrinkled and with false creases. Map of vol. 2 has large tear along a crease in the right half leaving about 1/3rd connected. Map in vol. 3 with chipping and foxing but no losses. Harper and Brothers unknown
1814réf. 21722London: Printed for John Murray 1814. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. Second Edition. Octavo. Second Edition with considerable additions. Five volumes. Vol. I. Memoirs and Letters. Vol. II. Letters. Vol. III. Historical and Critical. Vol. IV. Classical and Critical. Vol. V. Miscellaneous. Pp. lii 530; xx 503; viii 612; iv 648 1 errata; iv 635 incl. index. With engraved frontis portrait and 4 full-page plates in first volume and folding genealogical table in third volume. Bound in contemporary full calf later rebacked with elaborately gilt spines in compartments between raised bands gilt-lettered morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. Moderate wear to boards several corners repaired preliminaries a little foxed occasional light marginal foxing throughout but overall a nice clean set in handsomely restored bindings. Gibbon's Memoirs and Miscellaneous Works were first published in 1796 just two years after his death by his friend and literary executor Lord Sheffield. The Memoirs were compiled by Sheffield from six different incomplete manuscripts left among Gibbon's papers after his death. Originally published in a two-volume quarto edition a new and enlarged edition the present was issued in 1814 in five octavo volumes bringing to light a substantial quantity of new material gleaned from his Journal Letters and other miscellaneous papers. A year later in 1815 the original quarto edition was brought up to date with the addition of a third volume. Norton 134. Printed for John Murray Hardcover
1840réf. RGIBHIS01acmfHarper and Brothers 1840. Good. Gibbon Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4 vol. set. Milman notes H. H. NY: Harper and Brothers 1840. 529 464 523 477pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Good with bumped rubbed and faded edges. Marbling faded and pages foxed. Maps are wrinkled and with false creases. Map of vol. 2 has large tear along a crease in the right half leaving about 1/3rd connected. Map in vol. 3 with chipping and foxing but no losses. Harper and Brothers unknown books
1797réf. 1249C004London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies 1797. New Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxiv 456; xv 496; viii 412; viii 413; vii 432; viii 420; viii 424; viii 375; xii 502; xiii 384; xii 460; 12 432 96 Index. Good. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. Complete twelve volume set of the 1797 octavo 'New Edition'. Full tree calf leather bindings. Decorative gilt spines with red leather title and volume labels several labels are absent. Front board of Volume I is detached. Volumes VI and XII have been rebacked and endpapers replaced old repairs. Rubbing to boards wear to ends of spines and corners. Old auctioneer's paper label to front board of Volume V. Some minor insect damage to bindings a few short worm trails to page margins. Damp staining to inner margin of first and last few pages in most volumes. Heavy staining to margins of Volume IV. A few volumes have water splashes to page edges a couple have slight insect damage to page edges. Cracking to some of the joints but apart from Volume I all books remain securely bound. Light foxing to the text. Engraved portrait frontis to Volume I with light staining. Two fold-out maps in Volume I with tears and marking. Old paper repair to reverse of the first map has caused some staining. One fold-out map in Volume II in very good condition. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in all volumes John O. Harrisson Baintree. Old inked name crossed out to title page of Volume XI. Twentieth century inscription to front free endpaper in Volume I. An imperfect but robust eighteenth-century set. ESTC: N33264. Overall condition is Good. Please Note: This is a very heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate - a postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Please contact us for an accurate postage cost for your location. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies hardcover
réf. 59240New York Philadelphia Chicago: The Nottingham Society c.1900. EDITION DE LUXE 549/1000. 6 vols. 8vo. 22 x 15 cm. Original publisher's bindings of half dark burgundy morocco over marbled boards spines with two raised bands and Art Nouveau gilt foliate decoration marbled endpapers top edges gilt others uncut. Printed on laid paper. 48 full-page monochrome plates including frontispiece to each volume. Light rubbing to heads of two spines generally an excellent set. "It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature 146-7. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago: The Nottingham Society, [c.1900]. hardcover
réf. 62266London: John Murray Albermarle Street 1903-1914. 8 vols. Large 8vo. 22 x 14 cm. Original publisher's blind-stamped royal-blue cloth spines lettered in gilt black-coated endpapers pages unopened. Engraved portrait-frontispiece and 14 maps mostly folding some with partial colour. Generally an extremely fine set. "It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature 146-7. Vol. I II IV and VI are New Impression 1914. Vol. III V VII and VIII are New Impression 1903. London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1903-1914. hardcover
1872réf. 903009Covent Garden London: Bell & Daldy 1872 A beautiful 7 volume set of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman empire. All 7 volumes are half bound light brown leather. with 'feathered' coloured boards endpapers and page edges. The spines are five banded stamped with gilt decoration and the title gilt on a black background. All volumes are remarkably well preserved showing very little shelfwear rubbing or bumping. Volume one has various notes including those of Guizot Wenck Schreiter and Hugo included as a preface. A bound in 'Notice' after the copyright page about 'Bohn's British Classics" as well as two maps at the rear of the book both complete and attached however one has a closed tear. The frontispiece a picture of Gibbon is protected by the original tissue.This volume dated 1872. Volume two dated 1872.Volume 3 dated 1870 Volume 4 dated 1874 volume 5 dated 1871 volume 6 dated 1871 and volume 7 dated 1874. All volumes have the same bookplate pasted in on the front verso and dated 1878 A school prize giving for Latin and signed and dated by the then Headmaster of 'The Fre Gramar Schole of King Iames in Allmonbury' now the King James Grammar in Almondbury West Yorkshire England. A beautiful collectors set. Bell & Daldy hardcover
1796réf. 23989London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell 1796. First edition 2 vols. 4to pp. xxiv 703; viii 726 2; silhouette frontis portrait of Gibbon; full contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked red and black morocco labels on spines; very good and sound. U1 in Vol. I is a cancel as usual. A supplementary third volume published in 1815 is not present. Rothschild 949; Norton 131. A. Strahan & T. Cadell unknown
1796réf. 23989London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell 1796. First edition 2 vols. 4to pp. xxiv 703; viii 726 2; silhouette frontis portrait of Gibbon; full contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked red and black morocco labels on spines; very good and sound. U1 in Vol. I is a cancel as usual. A supplementary third volume published in 1815 is not present. Rothschild 949; Norton 131. A. Strahan & T. Cadell unknown books
réf. 23413for Longman Brown Green & Longman & others . London 1848. Portrait and folding maps. 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches contemporary full tan calf sides ruled in gilt spines gilt extra in 4 compartments with black lettering piece & burgundi numbering piece inset with red numerals within gilt decoration all edges marbled. Upper joint of volume 1 cracked but firm on cords. Overall a handsome set in good condition & generally very clean internally. Please excuse the reflection in the photograph of one of the covers. Very heavy extra overses shipping will therefore be requested. for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman [ & others ]. London, 1848. unknown
1829réf. 139663London: Joseph Cross Simpkin and Marshall and Effingham Wilson 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London Joseph Cross Simpkin and Marshall and Effingham Wilson 1829. Large duodecimo x 222 xxiv appendix pages plus a folding map of the world printed surface approximately 210 × 350 mm. Recent period-style half speckled calf and marbled boards retaining an early leather title-label and endpapers complete with the binder's stamp of 'Eedy Binder 37 Tavistock St'; minimal signs of age and use; essentially a fine copy. Written and published while Wakefield was serving a three year sentence in Newgate Gaol for abduction it first appeared as letters to the 'Morning Chronicle' from August to October 1829. Although Wakefield was not the originator of the theory of systematic colonization 'his was one of the earliest and clearest visions of an empire-by-consent' Pike. In this influential work he 'argued that if settlement were concentrated waste lands of the crown could be readily sold and the proceeds applied to the emigration of labourers preferably young married couples thereby giving maximum population relief in Britain and ensuring a balanced fruitful colonial society. Sufficiency of labour and a congenial society would attract capital encourage emigration assure prosperity and justify the rights of a colony to elect representatives to its own legislature' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The map in this copy is from the first issue dated 29 October 1829. Provenance: Dr Robert Edwards AO 1930-2023; earlier 'withdrawn' stamp of Lincoln's Inn Library; with the bookplate of lawyer and antiquary Charles Purton Cooper KC 1793-1873 who in 1834 'presented to Lincoln's Inn Library two thousand volumes on civil and foreign legal works having previously presented a hundred and fifty volumes of American Law Reports' biographical fact-sheet from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Kent accessed on the United Industrious Lodge 31 website. Joseph Cross, Simpkin and Marshall, and Effingham Wilson hardcover
1895réf. 73476chLakefield Ont. 1895. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4th Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A variant of the fourth edition bound in original medium green buckram not pebbled cloth hard covers with beveled edges. Decorative stamped gilt front board; rear is blind-stamped the same. All edges gilt; silver and green patterned rampant lions coated endpapers. Hand-coloured title-page plus 10 hand-coloured plates. This copy neither signed nor numbered and while including the "Introductory Note to the Fourth Edition" the title-page does not indicate fourth edition and bears neither the Briggs imprint nor the copyright notice at the bottom. Slightest toning to upper edge of boards. Mild toning toward edges of text. Tissue-guard at title-page is lost; others show some creasing and/or tearing to edges. Skiff of original green watercolour to verso title-page; short closed tear to top margin of p.37-8. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a really beautiful bright sound copy of the fourth edition. . Hardcover
2007réf. 3Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds Hardcover – November 22 2007 by Robert Coover Author Maureen Gibbon Author Jay McInerney Author Daphne Merkin Author Robert Stone Author Paul Theroux Author Dave Hickey Introduction Hugh M. Hefner Foreword Product detailsPublisher : Chronicle Books; Box edition November 22 2007 Language : EnglishHardcover : 720 pages ISBN-13 : 9780811860598Item Book Weight : 34.1 pounds Dimensions : 22.75 x 2.5 x 10.88 inches Brand New in original carton. Large folio enclosed in publisher's briefcase. This is 30 pounds of centerfolds The size of each page is the size of the original centerfold. The box was only opened once for taking pictures in this listing. As new. This book and briefcase are in the publisher's shipping box. The publisher's shipping box was opened to confirm the contents and once confirmed it was immediately resealed. Book is in padded briefcase and still in original box. Very heavy to ship 37 lbs. Shipping cost will be determined upon purchase. Printed in Italy Chronicle Books hardcover
2016réf. 1382051Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 2016. Limited Edition: #123/600. Hardcover. Large Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Housed in publisher's green cloth slip case lightly worn. Bound in publisher's decorated green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine edges and corners of boards. Mild scuffing to spine of Volume I and to rear board of Volume II. Edges of textblocks gilt mildly scratched. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 13. The textblock is "a facsimile re-creation of the edition published in 1880 by J.S. Virtue and Co. London" featuring all of the original plates in black and white. 1382051. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover
2016réf. 1382051Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 2016. Limited Edition: #123/600. Hardcover. Large Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Housed in publisher's green cloth slip case lightly worn. Bound in publisher's decorated green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine edges and corners of boards. Mild scuffing to spine of Volume I and to rear board of Volume II. Edges of textblocks gilt mildly scratched. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 13. The textblock is "a facsimile re-creation of the edition published in 1880 by J.S. Virtue and Co. London" featuring all of the original plates in black and white. 1382051. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1819réf. 24100031819. new edition. hardcover. very good. Stated "A New Edition" on title page. Printed for various persons. All volumes very good. All volumes have an attached bookplate to the front paste-down. unknown
1850réf. 20171Boston: Phillips Sampson 1850. A New Edition to Which is Added a Complete Index of the Whole Work. Fine 5 blank pages at end of Vol. I heavily annotated in pencil. A New Edition to Which is Added a Complete Index of the Whole Work". 6 volumes. Bound by John Grabau in full dark blue crushed morocco with marbled endpapers t.e.g. the spines with gilt titles and geometric designs in the panels the covers with frames of similar designs and incorporating Greek key elements. John Grabau bound for the Roycrofters before setting up his own bindery. Phillips, Sampson unknown
1819réf. 24100031819. new edition. hardcover. very good. Stated "A New Edition" on title page. Printed for various persons. All volumes very good. All volumes have an attached bookplate to the front paste-down. unknown books
1934réf. 548992London: Jarrolds Publishers 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Spine gilt slightly dull else about fine in attractive slightly spine-toned near fine dust jacket. The third volume in the author's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover
1934réf. 548992London: Jarrolds Publishers 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Spine gilt slightly dull else about fine in attractive slightly spine-toned near fine dust jacket. The third volume in the author's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover books
réf. 28917London G. Kearsley 1789. Octavo Vol I:xii570 pages Vol II:xii562 pages original boards bound in calf gilt lettering and raised bands on spine marbled edges and endpapers rubbed lightly foxed some chipping to the spine of both volumes some bumped corners a very good copy. First edition abridgement London, G. Kearsley, 1789 hardcover
1961réf. 152765London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1961. First limited edition of Edward Gibbon's journal of the momentous journey to Italy during which he conceived his monumental History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Quarto bound in original full vellum with a gilt-lettered spine printed on Millbourn hand-made paper top edge gilt frontispiece illustrated. One of 105 numbered copies this is number 2. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor in the year of publication on the limitation page "May this copy of Gibbon's Italian Journal convey to the owner Allan Ogilvie of Montrose the gratitude of the editor for the interest taken in his work. G. Bonnard. May 1961." In very good condition with light soiling and toning in the original glassine wrapper. Edited by Georges A. Bonnard. Edward Gibbon 1737 to 1794 was the greatest historian of the English Enlightenment celebrated above all for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire one of the supreme achievements of eighteenth-century prose. This volume prints the journal he kept during the Italian journey of 1764 the very tour on which as he famously recalled the idea of his great history first came to him as he sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol in Rome while barefooted friars sang vespers in the Temple of Jupiter. Edited by the Gibbon scholar Georges A. Bonnard and printed in a tiny hand-made-paper edition it is a treasured record of the origins of one of the monuments of Western historical writing. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd hardcover
1983réf. 68356Franklin Library. 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Full brown leather binding all edges gilt silk moiré endpapers three raised spine bands. Includes three publisher booklets produced for this "25th Anniversary Edition of the Great Books of the Western World." . Franklin Library hardcover
réf. Z1-V-030-01465Nabu Press. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Nabu Press unknown
