The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1854 - 1855
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3057613
Summary
Bibliographic description
8v., plates : front. port., maps ; 8vo. No advertisements. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]. Binding: ninteenth-century tree calf; gilt roll and double fillet border; gilt tooled spine, board edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers and edges; gold lettered red and green spine labels.
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) Sir William George Smith (1813-1893)