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1838282389London: Cadell 1838. hardcover. very good. A new edition in 8 volumes. Frontispiece portraits and 3 large folding maps. 8vo bound in full brown polished calf ornate gilt-decorated spines with orange & brown morocco spine labels t.e.g. somewhat rubbed. Volume 3 not uniformly bound but with a rustier color and chipped label. London: T. Cadell 1838. Very good.<br/><br/> Cadell unknown books
1906310398New York: Fred DeFau & Company 1906. Illustrated. Printed at the Norwood Press. 12 vols. 8vo. Three quarter red calf and cloth t.e.g. by Frost & Co. Bath England. Some rubbing with minor loss else Very Good. Illustrated. Printed at the Norwood Press. 12 vols. 8vo. Fred DeFau & Company unknown books
1788160730004London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1788. First Edition. Very Good. Complete in six volumes. All First Editions except volume 1 which is a Second Edition. Large quarto. Full contemporary mid-brown calf with early 20th century rebacks vol. 1 fully renewed at the same time and replaced endpapers raised bands red lettering piece and black numbering piece. Tips worn and exposed boards edge-worn. Sporadic light foxing throughout. A handful of small closed tears and marginal stains. Vol. 1 has some offsetting from engraved frontispiece portrait to title page as well as heavy foxing to both; first page of preface torn and missing about half; small wax stain on pages 471-4. Vol. 2: both maps present with small marginal tears but no loss. Vol. 3: binder mistakenly placed duplicate of map "The western Part of the Roman Empire" in previous volume rather than "The eastern Part." map. An attractive set of Gibbons' magnificent history. W. Strahan and T. Cadell unknown books
1998266459London: Folio Society 1998. hardcover. fine. 8 volumes Tall 8vos cream colored boards simulating vellum with red & blue spine labels. London: Folio Society 1998. 8th edition. Fine.<br/><br/> The text is reproduced from the Everyman edition of 1910. The books are housed in two red board slipcases.<br/><br/> Folio Society unknown books
18041504743Birtch and Small 1804. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The first American edition of this epic history. 8 volumes. Usually described as 1805 but this has the first four volumes dated 1804 on the title pages. Some front covers detached but can be reattached by any book binder. Appear to be original boards. Spines very worn but could also be original. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 6381 8518. APPLETON'S CYCLOPÆDIA VI p.469. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 222 ref. NORTON THE WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON 48. Birtch and Small hardcover books
180465139Philadelphia: Published by William Y. Birch & Abraham Small Printed by Robert Carr 1804. First American edition. First published in 1776-1788. Frontispiece portrait engraved by Alexander Lawson after Joshua Reynolds trimmed along lower margin affecting imprint; folding map of "Parts of Europe and Asia adjacent to Constantinople" other map removed and lacking. 8 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco label. Wormholes and trails on a few of the bindings some rubbing light browning of text even lacking the map a very attractive copy in two cloth open end cases. First American edition. First published in 1776-1788. Frontispiece portrait engraved by Alexander Lawson after Joshua Reynolds trimmed along lower margin affecting imprint; folding map of "Parts of Europe and Asia adjacent to Constantinople" other map removed and lacking. 8 vols. 8vo. Lawson engraved plates for the first volume of Wilson's "Ornithology" and those in the continuation by Bonaparte. Norton 48 maps and portrait were bound in volumes one and two rather than as noted in Norton. PMM 222 for the first edition Published by William Y. Birch & Abraham Small, Printed by Robert Carr unknown books
1820L57-1630London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies et al 1820. Hardcover. Good. Half calf and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering on spine all edges marbled. With two nice bookplates on the front paste-down: that of Abel Berland and the armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Lynch Blosse Bar. A working set with lightly rubbed boards some scuffing along joints some cracking at spine tips and corners. <br/><br/> Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, et al hardcover books
1820226145London: Cadell and Davies 1820. hardcover. very good. 12 volumes. Handsome stipple engraved frontispiece portrait and 2 large folding maps. 8vo full contemporary olive green polished calf with green and tan spine labels. London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al 1820. "A New Edition". A very good clean set in a handsome binding.<br/><br/> Cadell and Davies unknown books
1811161453Edinburgh 1811. hardcover. 12 volumes. Frontispiece portrait and 2 large folding map. Handsomely bound in contemporary full brown calf; gilt-stamped borders and spines with red leather labels; marbled endpapers and page edges leather is rubbed and a bit edgeworn in spots; hinge neatly repaired in two volumes still a quite attractive set. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute et al. 1811.<br/><br/> unknown books
1900318397Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1900. A New Edition. Frontis. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary polished tan calf gilt spine marbled sides. Almost fine. A New Edition. Frontis. 5 vols. 8vo. Henry T. Coates & Co unknown books
1839WRCLIT52593London: John Murray 1839. xvi451112pp. Large octavo. Original publisher's cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Frontis portrait after Reynolds. Cloth lightly rubbed and soiled with a few faint old splashmarks blank fore-margin of portrait has a light discoloration small nick in inner hinge else a very good copy. First edition of the text as edited by Milman enhanced by his privileged access to the original manuscripts. A decent association copy perhaps with the armorial bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. on the front pastedown. NCBEL II:1723. NORTON p.196-7. John Murray hardcover books
1958UGIBTRI00AFHarper Torchbooks 1958. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire. NY: Harper Torchbooks 1958. 411pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with faded and rubbed wraps. Harper Torchbooks paperback books
190698478New York: Fred Defau & Company 1906. The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon one of numbered 73 sets this is number 7. Octavo 15 volumes bound in full dark blue levant morocco inlaid red tulips at the corners of boards and center of each spine raised bands gilt titles to the spine brown morocco doublures and watered silk flyleaves binding by MacDonald plates in three states: photogravure colored on India paper and printed on velin. In fine condition. An exceptional set most rare and desirable. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose" PMM 222. "For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship the keen criticisms of theological zeal and the steady researches of two centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work learned as it is that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition the boundless range the infinite variety and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature 146-7. Fred Defau & Company hardcover books
190668481A Beautiful Set Limited to 73 Copies GIBBON Edward. The Works of Edward Gibbon. New York: Fred DeFau & Company 1906-1907. The Sheffield Edition one of 73 numbered sets this being number 4. Fifteen octavo volumes 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 217 x 146 mm. Illustrated with the plates some of which are colored in three states. Comprising: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The Autobiographies.Printed Verbatim from Hitherto Unpublished Mss. Miscellaneous Works and Private Letters. Beautifully bound by Macdonald in contemporary full dark blue levant morocco. Covers ruled in gilt with gilt red morocco floral onlay corner-pieces. Spines tooled and lettered in gilt with gilt red morocco floral onlays. Brown levant morocco doublures paneled in gilt. Cream watered silk liners. Top edge gilt others uncut. A superb set. GibbonÃs Decline and Fall brought to the subject a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this day. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works which like the writings of Macaulay and Mommsen maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar although they have been superseded in many if not most details by subsequent advance of research and changes in the climate of opinion. Whereas other eighteenth-century writers in this field such as Voltaire are still quoted with respect the Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which continues to be reprinted and actually read" Printing and the Mind of Man. Although superseded in many respects by two centuries of continuous research this great work is still read both for pleasure and for profit and has achieved an eminence denied most historical compilations of its kind. HBS 68481. $7500 Fred DeFau & Company unknown books
17967588baZ4London: Strahan Cadell Davies 1796. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. English literature; biography; first edition; 2 volumes; 27.8cm; modern 3/4 maroon leather binding by Corey; volume 1 frontispiece silhouette portrait of author English historian; volume 1 errata leaf facing page 1; volume 2 errata leaf after index; supplementary volume 3 published in 1815 not present; owner marks. Strahan, Cadell, Davies Hardcover books
19891297891Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; red and tan spine tan and black lettering; dust jacket has general shelfwear general edgewear rubbing on fore corners and spine edges interior age toned; boards strong slightly bowed rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges stamp pencil and marker on front end paper penciling on rear pastedown; text block slightly age toned light soiling on exterior head edge rubbing on exterior tail fore corner; xv 432pp. 1297891. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
19821297841Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1982. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; hardcover; bound in brown cloth gilt lettering; boards strong minor edgewear rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges stamp and pen and penciling on front end paper penciling on rear pastedown; text block slightly age toned soiling on exterior head edge; xvi 380pp. 1297841. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
197723063NY:: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. B000KU3KOS . Complete in three volumes. No indication of printing. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by R. D. Scudellari. . Modern Library, hardcover books
1999Embry 197102Folio Society 1999. 10th Printing. Fine in fine slipcases. Folio Society, 1999. 10th Printing. unknown books
1844011998NY: Harper and Brothers 1844. 1s US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. First or early US edition with notes by English historian and ecclesiastic Rev Henry Hart Milman 1791 - 1868 4 volume set complete maps as called for in vols 1 2 and 3 all in original folds. Bound in original or old full calf crusty and flaking front covers loosened but holding in vols 3 and 4. Sporadic foxing throughout all volumes. A good reference set. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1946012282NY: Limited Editions Club 1946. 1s US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. 7 volumes complete simply yet elegantly bound in half black leather over black cloth gilt ruled spines. 1500 copies this #847. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1940WRCLIT79066London: Jonathan Cape 1940. 288pp. Large octavo. Gilt polished black buckram untrimmed. Portrait. Plates. Slight tanning to edges and endsheets but a near fine copy in good somewhat darkened and soiled dust jacket. First edition the uncommon first issue. Keynes notes in his autobiography that the first printing sold poorly due to the war and a significant portion of the edition was destroyed in the blitz. Rupert Hard-Davis wrote in THE BOOK COLLECTOR that "Gibbon's Library was duly brought out in one of the worst months in publishing history - April 1940. It achieved the splendid record of selling fewer copies than any other book ever published by Cape - under a hundred I remember - and since most of the unsold stock was soon destroyed by enemy action the book must be the rarest in all Geoffrey's extensive oeuvre." In 1950 the Bibliographical Society bound up some sets of rescued sheets with a missing signature reprinted constituting the second issue. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
19602311036New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1960. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Book club edition. Very good hardcover in fair jacket. Jacket rubbed and creased with some tears and loss from corners. 1960 Hard Cover. 924 pp. Map illustrated endpapers. The classic abridgment by D.M. Low. "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV V VI in 1788 Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
20001212153London: Folio Society 2000. Special Folio Society Edition Eleventh Printing. Octavo; VG/VG Slipcase No Jackets; White red and blue spines with gilt lettering; 8 Volumes housed in 2 red slipcases; Boards and covers are straight and with light rubbing to some covers and spines; Bindings are strong; Text blocks are pristine; 8 Volumes. Shelved in Folio Society. 1212153. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Folio Society unknown books
1963UGIBDEC00AGGWashington Square Press 1963. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Selections from the Writings of Edward Gibbon. Trevor-Roper editor Hugh R. NY: Washington Square Press 1963. 456pp. Indexed. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped and rubbed edges and previous owner's name on first page. Washington Square Press paperback books
