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1838réf. 70052London: For T. Cadell Strand 1838. 8 volumes. A New Edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved folding maps. 8vo very handsomely and sumptuously bound in full russia presentation bindings lettered and decorated in gilt with the crests and regalia of Archibald Primrose fifth Earl of Rosebery and Prime Minister in compartments of the spines between gilt ruled raised bands two compartments lettered in gilt one compartment with gilt tooled panel design the covers with triple gilt fillet lines at the borders meeting a floral device gilt at the intersections enclosing an arabesque styled central panel enclosing the gilt arms of Christ College Cambridge gilt turnovers marbled endleaves and edges. lii 509; viii 488; xii 571; xii 533; xvi 555; xii 501; xi 555; xi 468 index. A very fine and handsome set very well preserved and in excellent condition. A VERY FINE AND SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND SET WITH EXCELLENT PROVENANCE OF THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN. 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. For T. Cadell, Strand 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
1838réf. 41072John Murray 1838-1839. 13 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with engraved portrait frontispiece in 'Life' and 14 engraved maps the majority folding and MANY COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE the maps generally lightly foxed but crisply folded some mild and occasional offsetting; contemporary plum cloth boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind gilt backs primrose endpapers uncut one volume LARGELY UNOPENED two volumes expertly recased with original endpapers preserved backs moderately and uniformly sunned but all gilt wholly legible fore-edges lightly spotted a remarkably bright crisp clean extended set in largely unrestored publisher's binding. All volumes complete with half-titles; most volumes with publisher's catalogues variously dated 1838-39 at end confirming early issue; tenth volume with publisher's advance notice slip Milman's History of Christianity and Life of Gibbon mounted facing half-title; twelfth volume with separately printed errata slip mounted facing end of Contents. Maps and Catalogues as follows: Vol.I: 2 folding 8pp. March 1838 ; Vol.II: 1 folding; Vol.III: 2 full-page 12pp. May 1838; Vol. IV: 1 folding 12pp. June 1838; Vol. V: 1 folding 12pp. August 1838; Vol.VI: 1 folding 4pp. n.d.; Vol. VII: 1 folding 12pp. October 1838; Vol. VIII: 1 folding 32pp. October 1838; Vol.IX: 1 folding 6pp. December 1838; Vol. X: 1 folding 32pp. December 1838; Vol. XI: I folding 8pp. January 1839; Vol. XII: 1 folding 8pp. January 1839. The portrait of Gibbon is by Scriven after Reynolds. A CRISP EXTENDED SET OF THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MILMAN'S 'GIBBON' IN LARGELY UNRESTORED PERIOD CLOTH BINDING AND AS SUCH MOST UNUSUAL. John Murray, hardcover
réf. 7694LONDON METHUEN 1930. TENTH EDITION COMPLETE IN SEVEN VOLUMES RED CLOTH WITH MAPS. SOME JOINTS WEAK GENERALLY VERY GOOD. LONDON, METHUEN, 1930 hardcover
1825réf. 500024826London: Thomas M'Lean Mclean James Goodwin et al 1825. New Edition. . Hardcover. Good. Rare edition. Apparently not in British Library. Discolouration and chipping to some spines. Volumes 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Missing volumes 1 and 12 Thomas M'Lean (Mclean) James Goodwin et al hardcover
réf. 43128G. Virtue c. 1890. 5 vols. Tall 8vo. Original elaborately gilt tooled spines with gilt trophy of arms device on upper boards headcaps neatly repaired - a very bright VG set. Pp. xvi 224 225-464 465-643 60 61-316 317-666 xi no inscriptions illus with engraved plates and folding maps vol 1: frontispiece and engraved title page 9 further plates and 1 folding map; vol 2: 10 plates folding panorama; vol 3: 11 plates 1 map; vol 4: 10 plates; vol 5: 8 plates and 3 maps prelim plates a little loosened tissue guards spotted plates mainly clean and unmarked. G. Virtue, c. 1890 unknown
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réf. 9247723Ward Lock & Co NULL. Volumes 1234. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Revised edition no date. Four-volume set. 8vo. Blue boards half cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on backstrip. All volumes have some light shelf wear with rubbed edges and scuffed boards. Top edge darkened. All volumes have firm bindings. Pages clean throughout all volumes. Light staining on fore edge of volume 2. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1850grams ISBN: Ward, Lock & Co hardcover
1821réf. 577573London: J. F. Dove 1821. Volume 8. A new edition with maps and portrait; complete in eight volumes. This is the full set of eight volumes. Each volume has a decorative cover. All contain brown spots on pages but generally pages are clean. Binding can be loose in some volumes. Volume 1 - Front cover detached but included no backstrip. Volume 2 - no backstrip. Volume 3 - no backstrip. Volume 4 - no backstrip. Volume 5 - no backstrip. Volume 6 - no backstrip. Volume 7 - no backstrip. Volume 8 - front cover detached but included no backstrip. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. in poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item5400grams ISBN: J. F. Dove hardcover
1845réf. AB7466New York: The Nottingham Society 1845. de luxe. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 6-volume set. no date but believed ca 1845. Ex-reference library with labels on front pastedown & rear fep dewi no on spine. Good copies in half leather with gilt titles and decoration on spine and pale orange marbled boards. spine tops and tails scuffed with splits to vol I and small losses to 2 other vols. vol 6 front cover partially detached & spine faded. heavy books may incur additional postage charge. The Nottingham Society hardcover
réf. 121979London Ward Lock and CO. c.1900. . 2 vols; large 8vo 23 x 15 cm; full-page wood-engraved illustrations including frontispiece to each vol. prize-plate to front pastedown of vol. I bookbinder's tickets to pastedowns a little toned; contemporary pebble-grain green morocco prize-binding by J. Low for The Law Society gilt arms to upper-covers gilt spines all edges gilt An excellent example of Gibbon's celebrated history in a green morocco prize-binding by J. Low for The Law Society. A monumental work spanning nearly 1500 years of history which has remained controversial since its first appearance. Gibbon argued that Rome's fall was the 'natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight' c.38 p.523. As a result this hollow empire succumbed easily to the twin forces of barbarianism and Christianity which had been gaining momentum over the course of the fourth century AD. Although attacked for his perceived irreligion Gibbon's work received many positive reviews and has since become a cornerstone text in the study of Western history. Writing to Gibbon in December 1788 his friend Adam Smith noted that 'by the universal assent of every man of taste and learning. Decline and Fall sets you at the very head of the whole literary tribe at present existing in Europe' ODNB. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps showing the extent of the Roman Empire. London, Ward, Lock and CO., [c.1900]. unknown
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2026réf. LRB534393Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 548 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1897. Classic historical work on the rise transformation and eventual decline of the Roman Empire valued for its broad narrative scope analytical ambition and enduring place in historical writing. This edition is especially useful for readers and collectors interested in a scholarly presentation of one of the most influential works of imperial history. Classic historical study of the Roman Empire offering a sweeping interpretation of its development and decline. Of interest to readers of history classic scholarship and major historical syntheses. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026réf. LRB535351Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 640 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1854. An important historical work on the rise expansion and eventual decline of the Roman Empire notable for its sweeping narrative critical method and enduring influence on historical writing. This edition also reflects the editorial contribution of Henry Hart Milman whose name appears alongside Edward Gibbon's in the present volume. A substantial text for readers interested in classical antiquity imperial history and the tradition of major historical synthesis. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2009réf. UGIBHIS00ajsFolio Society 2009. Fine. Gibbon Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 8 volume set. London: Folio Society 2009. 322 322 370 394 394 377 444 366pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Cream hardcovers in red slipcases. Book condition: Near fine. Second slipcase in original shrinkwrap. This set consists of 2 slipcases with 4 volumes per case. Volumes have black and white illustrations as well as color plates. The first case contains The Turn of The Tide Constantine and The Christian Empire The Revival and Collapse of Paganism The End of the Western Empire. The Second case contains Justinian and The Roman Law Mohammed and The Rise of The Arabs The Normans in Italy and The Crusades The Fall of Constantinople and The Papacy in Rome. Folio Society hardcover
1823réf. 71767J. Maynard; T. Bohn; et al. Fair No dust jacket as issued. New edition. Hardcover. 12 hardbacks rebound in full red leather with gilt titles on black labels some minor loss dents and scratches to leather no inscriptions. Vol I: new endpapers pages age tanned and some foxing xxxii 456 pages foldout map has short closed tear where attached. Vol II: new endpapers pages age tanned and some foxing xii 486 pages foldout map has short closed tear where attached. Vol III: new endpapers pages age tanned and some foxing viii 410 pages. Vol IV: Vol II: new front endpaper rear endpaper missing pages age tanned at edges stain to page fore edges viii 438 pages. Vol V: new endpapers binding pulled at contents page pages age tanned viii 428 pages. Vol VI: new endpapers pages age tanned viii 412 pages. Vol VII: new endpapers pages age tanned viii viii 424 pages. Vol VIII: title label missing from spine new endpapers pages age tanned viii 376 pages. Vol IX: new endpapers pages age tanned x 504 pages. Vol X: new endpapers pages age tanned & foxed x 382 pages. Vol XI: new endpapers binding pulled at front endpaper pages age tanned x 450 pages. Vol XII: new endpapers binding pulled at contents page pages age tanned xii 508 pages index. Heavy set so additional postage may be requested . 1823. J. Maynard; T. Bohn; et al hardcover
1782réf. 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
1885réf. 25EG6R1885v6GIBBON Edward 1737–1794. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Bigelow Brown and Company 1885. Newly Edited edition incorporating the notes and commentary of William Smith Dean Milman François Guizot and Dr. Wenck. Complete in six volumes. Octavo 8vo. Bound in contemporary three-quarter burgundy morocco over tan cloth boards with raised bands gilt lettering and decorative gilt compartments to the spines marbled endpapers top edges gilt and deckled fore and lower edges. Illustrated with engraved portrait frontispieces. First published between 1776 and 1789 Gibbon's monumental history remains one of the most influential works of historical scholarship ever produced. This late nineteenth-century scholarly edition edited by William Smith and enriched with the annotations of Milman Guizot and Wenck helped shape the work's modern reception and remained a standard reference edition for generations. Contents clean and bright with light foxing to front endpapers and a few preliminary leaves. Numerous leaves remain unopened. Bindings sound and firm with moderate rubbing and wear to leather extremities including minor losses and scuffing at spine ends and corners. An Good Victorian set. Attributes: Hardcover. Bigelow, Brown and Co. hardcover
1776réf. 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
1856réf. 2354153Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1856. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled with some loss from corners edges and endpapers lightly foxed and smudged ink name address and date on front flyleaf of each volume pages a bit toned. Bindings tight and square. 1856 Hard Cover. An excellent edition of Edward Gibbon's magnum opus. Six hardcover volumes. 7 3/4" x 5 1/4". Original brown cloth hardcover bindings with gold spine lettering & design embossed design on front & back covers. Gibbon's complete work with notes by Rev. Milman plus a general index. "The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings a remarkable feat for its time. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV V VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published as quartos a common publishing practice of the time. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Gibbon is sometimes called the first 'modern historian of ancient Rome.' By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material Gibbon's work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians. His pessimism and detached use of irony was common to the historical genre of his era. Although he published other books Gibbon devoted much of his life 1772-1789 to this one work. His autobiography Memoirs of My Life and Writings is devoted largely to his reflections on how the book virtually became his life. He compared the publication of each succeeding volume to a newborn child. The book is famous not only because it is extraordinarily well written but also because Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. This is one of the great historical questions and because of the relative lack of written records from the time one of the most difficult to undertake. Gibbon was not the first to theorise about this. In fact most of his ideas are directly taken from Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries who wrote about it at the time; nor would he be the last; see for example Henri Pirenne's Thesis of the early 20th century. According to Gibbon the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions because of a loss of civic virtue among its citizens. They had become lazy and soft outsourcing their duties to defend their Empire to barbarian mercenaries who then became so numerous and ingrained that they were able to take over the Empire. Romans he believed had become effeminate unwilling to live a tougher 'manly' military lifestyle. In addition Gibbon pointed to Christianity. Christianity he says created a belief that a better life existed after death. This fostered indifference to the present among Roman citizens thus sapping their desire to sacrifice for the Empire. He also believed its comparative pacifism tended to sap the traditional Roman martial spirit. Finally like other Enlightenment thinkers Gibbon held in contempt the Middle Ages as a priest-ridden superstitious dark age. It was not until his own age of reason and rational thought it was believed that human history could resume its progress. Gibbon provides the reader with a glimpse of his thought process with extensive notes along the body of the text a precursor to the modern use of footnotes. Gibbon's footnotes are famous for their idiosyncrasies. They provide an entertaining moral commentary on both ancient Rome and 18th-century Great Britain. This technique enabled Gibbon to compare ancient Rome to modern times. Gibbon's work advocates a rationalist and progressive view of history. Gibbon's citations provide in-depth detail regarding his use of sources for his work on ancient Rome documents dating back to ancient Rome. The detail within his asides and his care in noting the importance of each document is a precursor to modern-day h Phillips, Sampson, and Company hardcover
1999réf. 152374London: The Folio Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardback. Slip cover has a few little marks on it; 10th printing in a red slip case volume 1-4 with no markings; 1-4 . 1999. The Folio Society hardcover
