The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 1819 in 12 Volumes

Size: 136 x 218 mm (approx., each)

Condition: 

[i-xxxi, foldout map, pp.[1]-456]; [i-xi, foldout map, pp.[1]-486]; [i-vii, pp.[1]-409]; [i-vii, pp.[1]-438]; [i-vii, pp.[1]-427]; [i-vii, pp.[1]-411]; [i-viii, pp.[1]-423]; [i-viii, pp.[1]-375]; [i-ix, pp.[1]-503]; [i-ix, pp.[1]-382]; [i-x, pp.[1]-450]; [i-xi, pp.[1]-508]

Uniform full leather bindings, worn with losses and a few lacking tooled labels. Rubbed and scuffed with boards lacking some leather. Shelf wear. Some tails appear to have been historically renewed. Joints rubbed with several cracked. Front boards of volumes one and two being fragile but all boards are attached. Top page edges dulled as typical, others very good, dusty. Endpapers heavily toned & foxed but generally clean through the text blocks of each volume. Bookplate attached to each front pastedown. Maps both very good.