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    By Edward Gibbon
    Oxford   D. A. Talboys and William Pickering
    9" by 6" 466; 451; 499; 520; 512; 464; 549; 469pp
    An impressive eight volume edition of Gibbon's magnum opus, handsomely bound in half calf, tracing Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century. 
    By Edward Gibbon

    1827 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Oxford   D. A. Talboys and William Pickering
    9" by 6" 466; 451; 499; 520; 512; 464; 549; 469pp
    An impressive eight volume edition of Gibbon's magnum opus, handsomely bound in half calf, tracing Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century. 
    £895.00
    : 10kgs / : 978F5
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    Leather Binding

    The Oxford English Classics edition of this work, complete in eight volumes.

    Volume I illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.

    Edward Gibbon's classic historical study, traces Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the fifteenth century. 

    Gibbon here offers a condensed, detailed, and thorough history of the fall of the Roman Empire, covering a period from 98 to 1590. He further explores the history of Europe, Christianity, and the Church.

    Gibbon has been criticized for his flawed interpretations of various religions, with his scathing views on Christianity leading the book to be banned in several countries upon its publication.

    Condition

    In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to back strips and board perimeters, with significant rubbing and minor loss of calf to tail of volume III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with significant spotting to title page of volume I, and instances of spotting to first and last few leaves - and endpapers - of each volume.

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