The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1788 - 1789
Materials
Place of origin
Ireland
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3103704
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v., plates (some folded) . port.., maps . 8vo.. Former shelfmarks: Ii/3 (in pencil), Ii.9.39-44 (in ink).. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (after 1754) in each vol.: Philip Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754].. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf bindings; blind roll on board edges; gilt fillets, black title and vol. no. labels on spines. Recessed cords. Blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)