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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

1782rif. 144652London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand 1782-1788. Rare first edition set of Gibbon's masterpiece with only volume I being a second edition. Quarto 6 volumes bound in full diced calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine gilt scrolling and flueron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges speckled black engraved frontispiece portrait of Gibbon by John Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds & map of the "Eastern Part of the Roman Empire" in Vol. II.; map of the "Western Part of the Roman Empire" in Vol. III. Volume I is a second edition volumes II-VI are first editions. In good condition Vols. I and II rebacked. Armorial bookplate of C. Codrington to each pastedown vol. III with a small strip of marbled paper tipped to front free endpaper repair to Map of the Western Empire. A nice set. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works 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 222. "For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 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 146-7. Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand hardcover

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

1776rif. 191127London: for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell 1776-88. The apogee of Enlightenment history First edition of Gibbon's magnum opus one of the great products of the Enlightenment and among the most influential of all histories. This set is one of only 500 possible examples with the first volume in the first state. For the editors of Printing and the Mind of Man "this masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works" PMM. The initial print run for volume I was 500 copies but popular anticipation led the publishers to double the run during production. 500 copies of the first 28 sheets had already been printed complete with corrected cancel leaves at X4 and a4. When the extra 500 copies of these sheets were printed these corrections were included in the text eliminating the need for the original cancels. This set includes the original printings of the first 28 sheets with cancel leaves at X4 and a4. The first volume was published with great fanfare in February 1776; the second and third were published in March 1781 and the final three in May 1788. 6 vols quarto 269 x 212 mm. Engraved portrait frontispiece dated 1780 to vol. I 2 folding engraved maps in vol. II folding map in vol. III. All vols bound with half-titles errata leaves in vols. I II III and VI as called for vol. VI bound without final blank. Early 19th-century panelled calf rebacked with spines laid down spines decorated and ruled in gilt and with red and brown morocco labels covers with single-fillet panel in gilt. With mid-20th-century bookplate of the physician William Binns Cowper of the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II to all vols. Light bumping and rubbing faint toning and spotting to contents short closed tears to inner margins of first map of vol. II and map of vol. III repaired marginal tears to 4H2 of vol. II and H3 of vol. III errata leaf of vol. III misbound after preliminaries: overall a very good set. ESTC T78356 T78360 T78362; T78365. Grolier English 58; Norton 20 23 29; Printing and the Mind of Man 222; Rothschild 942. unknown

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