Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., first edition, second issue, engraved portrait frontispiece (dated 1780) to vol.2, 3 folding engraved maps, lacking half-titles, vol.1 and 2 and about half of vol.4 stained (not affecting legibility), maps in vol.2 with offsetting, light water-stain to beginning of vol.3, near contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked, [PMM 222; Grolier English 58], 4to, for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-88. ⁂ The second issue has the errata in volume one up to p.183 corrected. While the first volume was on the press the publisher decided to increase the print run from 500 to 1000 - the second approximate 500 copies constitute the second state or issue. Despite condition issues a tight and acceptable copy of this great classic.
Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., first edition, second issue, engraved portrait frontispiece (dated 1780) to vol.2, 3 folding engraved maps, lacking half-titles, vol.1 and 2 and about half of vol.4 stained (not affecting legibility), maps in vol.2 with offsetting, light water-stain to beginning of vol.3, near contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked, [PMM 222; Grolier English 58], 4to, for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-88. ⁂ The second issue has the errata in volume one up to p.183 corrected. While the first volume was on the press the publisher decided to increase the print run from 500 to 1000 - the second approximate 500 copies constitute the second state or issue. Despite condition issues a tight and acceptable copy of this great classic.
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