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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [with] The Miscellaneous Works of... with Memoirs of his Life and Writings... with occasional notes and narrative by... John, Lord Sheffield
de GIBBON, Edward
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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London: [I] Lackington, Allen and Co. [et al]; [II] Printed for John Murray, 1815, 1814.. Seventeen volumes, 8vo, "Decline and Fall..." 12 volumes with a portrait frontispiece and 2 folding maps, "Miscellaneous Works" second edition, 5 volumes with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates and a folding genealogy. Some occasional light foxing, particularly to the maps, marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates of Baron Dimsdale. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf, corners with some wear, neatly rebacked, "Decline and Fall" retaining the original green morocco labels, "Miscellaneous Works" with new labels. "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..." (Printing and the Mind of Man 222). Norton p.115 & no. 134.
Sinopsis
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published in quarto sections, a common publishing practice of the time.
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- Título
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [with] The Miscellaneous Works of... with Memoirs of his Life and Writings... with occasional notes and narrative by... John, Lord Sheffield
- Autor
- GIBBON, Edward
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- London: [I] Lackington, Allen and Co. [et al]; [II] Printed for John Murray
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- 1815, 1814.
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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