His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years.
“For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. “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). Rare full first edition set, second state of Volume I, with portrait of Gibbon by Joseph Hall after Joshua Reynolds and three engraved folding maps by Kitchin of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire and of Constantinople, beautifully bound in contemporary calf. Quarto, contemporary full tree calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF GIBBON’S DECLINE AND FALL, “THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER WRITTEN”
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