£200
Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, A New Edition, six-volume set, London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782-1788, engraved portrait frontispiece, fold-out copperplate-engraved maps, contemporary mottled calf gilt, the covers ornately gilt-rolled in the Neoclassical taste with Adamesque paterae and trailing foliage, the angles with leafy cornucopia, the spines similar, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, 4to, [6]
Provenance: John Barton, 1791; dated ink MS inscription to each title-page.
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