Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the ...

Hammer

£140

Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, twelve-volume set, T. Caddell and W. Davies, London 1813, volume I with engraved title-piece portrait of the author after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the same volume with contemporary ink MS onwers's inscription James Wood, flyleaf with later owner W.H. Cooper 1852, speckled calf boards, later foliate embossed calf spines with red leather title labels, later endpapers, short 8vo