The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Eight Volume set, in two slipcases) de Gibbon, Edward

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 1984-1990. (hardcover) Various. Fine. 4to. Eight volume set, sold as such. Orignally published 1772-1789. Housed, as issued, Volumes I-IV together and Volumes V-VIII, together, each in a sturdy red slip case with title and decoration stamped in gilt to one panel of each case. Tomes match in colour and each includes frontispiece, mapped endpapers, index. Fine copies in fine slipcases. Volumes I-IV: Edited and with an introduction by Betty Radice. Volumes V-VIII: Edited by Felipe Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Volume I: The Turn of the Tide; Volume II: Constantine and the Christian Empire; Volume III: The Revival and Collapse of Paganism; Volume IV: The End of the Western Empire; Volume V: Justinian and the Roman Law; Volume VI: Mohammed and the Rise of the Arabs; Volume VII: The Normans in Italy and The Crusades; Volume VIII: The Fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome..