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1995réf. 299237United Kingdom: Folio Society 1995. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback volumes v-viii a reissue of the 1987 edition in a new binding in full elephanthide and lettered gilt on contrasting red and blue labels to the spines dust wrappers not called for. Edited by Felipe Fernandez-Amesto. A very good tightly bound set with clean and unmarked contents. Map to the endpapers b&w illustrations. Housed in a well preserved red paper covered slipcase. A heavy set which may attract a request for additional postage if ordered from locations outside the United Kingdom. . Folio Society Hardcover
1876réf. 34851Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1876. 6 volumes. A new edition to which is added a complete index of the whole work. With an engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one with tissue guard. 8vo in period bindings of three-quarter polished brown calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines very handsomely gilt tooled with a lattice in two compartments gilt lettering in two others and fine gilt tooling around a central gilt flower device in one other these all separated by delicately gilt stippled raised bands marbled endpapers and page edges. A nicely preserved set the text completely free of any foxing stains or spotting looking largely unused the bindings are firm and solid with strong hinges the calf with a little rubbing and general wear but with bright gilt. A very handsome set in contemporary bindings of the greatest historical work ever undertaken. The text is largely that of John Murray's 1846 edition and embodies the important notes of Rev. Milman. It was in Italy while "musing amid the ruins of the Capital" that Gibbon formed the plan of his history. Originally published in six volumes from 1776 to 1788 Gibbon's fine scholarship has remained for the most part unchallenged. The work's numerous reprintings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are evidence of its popularity and historical accuracy. "For twenty-two years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly fifteen-hundred years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship the keen criticisms of theological zeal and the steady researches of two centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work learned as it is that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition the boundless range the infinite variety and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature pp. 146-147. The success of the work was immediate. "I am at a loss" Gibbon wrote "how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table and almost on every toilette." Publication of this grand work placed Gibbon at the "very head of the literary tribe" in Europe according to Adam Smith. Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger hardcover
1963réf. GB000UH45L8I5N01NELSON DOUBLEDAY INC 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. NELSON DOUBLEDAY INC hardcover
réf. ANAIS-0713991240Penguin Press. hardcover. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Penguin Press hardcover
réf. ANAIS-1557865663Wiley-Blackwell. hardcover. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley-Blackwell hardcover
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1994réf. 1857151925-4-35665645Random House 1994-01-01. hardcover. Acceptable. 5x4x8. Random House hardcover
2026réf. x-1836953208Berghahn Books 2026. Hardcover. New. 186 pages. 9.01x6.00x9.00 inches. Berghahn Books hardcover
réf. ANAIS-0307700763Everyman's Library. Reprint. other. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Everyman's Library unknown
réf. 358125John W Parker 1849. FIRST EDITION super octavo brown heavy boards black lettering to label on spine xxiv 513pp 6 VG- light to moderate rubbing to board edges & spine light chafing to boards boards slightly warped moderate foxing & soiling to page edges previous owner's name & bookplate to front pastedown sporadic v slight soiling to pages John W Parker, 1849 hardcover
réf. ANAIS-0404028209Ams Pr Inc. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ams Pr Inc hardcover
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1784réf. 187960Dublin: printed for W. Wilson 1784. An early pirated Irish set The first half of Gibbons's magisterial history printed before the release of the final volumes in 1788. Dublin booksellers swiftly issued their own editions as soon as the first volume was published in 1776 and sold them at a lower price in England. "Such piracy was advertisement as well as competition" and Gibbon himself remarked that they "have printed it very well" Norton p. 94. 6 vols octavo 206 x 128 mm. With 3 folding maps. Contemporary sprinkled calf flat spines divided into compartments by gilt rolls red and green morocco labels. Contemporary bookplates. Craquelure to spines loss to ends with some restored bindings marked corners worn contents fresh loss to vol. 4 rear free endpaper and corner of vol. 5 p. 401 text not affected. A very good set. Jane E. Norton A bibliography of the works of Edward Gibbon 1970. 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
2008réf. x-1843923904Willan Pub 2008. Hardcover. New. 224 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Willan Pub hardcover
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