The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1787
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3038798.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.3 (of 6?) . map . 4to.. Shelved and uniform with v.1 of the new ed. (1782) and v.4-6 (1788). Provenance: Hervey armorial bookplate, with Baron's coronet, label mark of cadency [i.e. first son] and motto Je n'oublierai jamais [probably John Augustus, Lord Hervey (1757-1796)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full tree calf binding; gilt tooled border; Twentieth-century rebacked spine gilt decorated and lettered: "Gibbon's Roman Empire. II [-III]. 1787".
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)