The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 volumes, a new edition, printed for W. Allason et al, 1820, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, two large folding engraved maps (one with short handling tear paper-repaired on verso), occasional minor spotting, neat manuscript name at head of title-pages dated 1823, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Richard Adams, contemporary tan calf, rubbed, and some wear to extremities, gilt decorated spines lacking the majority of labels, 8vo A reissue of the 1818 edition, in which the number of maps appears to vary between two and three. (12)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 volumes, a new edition, printed for W. Allason et al, 1820, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, two large folding engraved maps (one with short handling tear paper-repaired on verso), occasional minor spotting, neat manuscript name at head of title-pages dated 1823, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Richard Adams, contemporary tan calf, rubbed, and some wear to extremities, gilt decorated spines lacking the majority of labels, 8vo A reissue of the 1818 edition, in which the number of maps appears to vary between two and three. (12)
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