The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1854 - 1855
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
230 x 152 mm; 44 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3057614.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1., plates . ill.., port.., maps . 8vo.. Former pressmark: B.7. Includes frontispiece portrait. Dates of advertising supplements differ from those of Belton copy, i.e. = 1856. With marginal pencil marks. Date of reading 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.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) François Guizot (1787 - 1874) Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) Sir William George Smith (1813-1893)