The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1846
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Fenton House, London
NT 3124792
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v.,[14] leaves of plates (some folded) . maps . 8vo.. Some of the plates are hand-coloured. Pencil note on vol. 1 free endpaper verso: 3/12/ 6 Vol. set. Provenance: manuscript on vol. 1 flyleaf: To my dear George on his leaving Sydney in May 1857 from his loving Father WK Salting. Binding: Nineteenth-century polished calf over boards, gilt tooling on spine and board edges, double gilt fillet with cornerpieces and inner dotted blind roll on covers, blind tooling on board inners, marbled edges to match endpapers, brown and green spine labels. Small ink stamp on each free endpaper verso: Bound by Hayday.
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)