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
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3057614
Summary
Bibliographic description
8v., plates . ill.., port.., maps . 8vo.. Former pressmark: B.7. Includes frontispiece portrait in v.1. Dates of sdvertising supplements differ from those of Belton copy, i.e. vol. 1 & 4, 5 = 1856; no advertisements in v. 2,3,6. Single advertisement leaves in v. 7 & 8. With marginal pencil marks in v. 1-5. Unopened leaves in v. 6,7,8. Dates of reading (v.1) in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan: Feb 4 1918.. Provenance: Earlier pressmark indicates that this is originally from the library of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879) Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine (m. 1904)] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell.. Binding: Publisher's embossed cloth. Binder's ticket: Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London.
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) François Guizot (1787 - 1874) Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) Sir William George Smith (1813-1893)