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Genre/Form: | Stained leather (Binding) Gold tooled leather (Binding) History Portraits Intaglio prints Leather bindings (Binding) Fillet tools (Binding) Lettering pieces (Binding) Marbled papers (Binding) Stained edges (Binding) Sprinkled edges (Binding) Binders' tickets (Binding) Signed bindings (Binding) Maps Autobiographies Publishers' advertisements Illegible markings (Provenance) Annotations (Provenance) Labels (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Philadelphia: : Published by William Y. Birch & Abraham Small, no. 37, South Second Street. Printed by Robert Carr., 1804[-1805] (OCoLC)656633663 |
Named Person: | Edward Gibbon; Edward Gibbon; Edward Gibbon |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward Gibbon; Robert Carr; Peter A Mesier; Joshua Reynolds, Sir; Alexander Lawson; Frederick Brown; Birch and Small, |
OCLC Number: | 191261504 |
Notes: | Maps engraved by Alexander Lawson. Frontispiece portrait of Gibbon (v. 1) signed: Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by A. Lawson. Printed by F. Brown. In some copies v. 2 has a variant imprint: Philadelphia: Published by William Y. Birch & Abraham Small, no. 37, South Second Street, and P.A. Mesier, New-York. Printed by Robert Carr. 1804. Imprint date of v. 6-8 varies: 1805. "Printed by Robert Carr, no. 10, Church-Alley."--Colophons, v. 1-3. "Printed by Robert Carr."--colophons, v. 4-8. Vol. 1: xv, [1], 444 p. [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: vii, [1], 435, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 3: vii, [1], 480 p.; v. 4: viii, 496 p.; v. 5: x, 481, [1] p.; v. 6: vii, [1], 468 p.; v. 7: ix, [1], 488 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 8: vii, [1], 283, [1], lxiv, 130, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates. Last pages of v. 2, 5 blank. Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 297 misnumbered 279; v. 6, p. 285-287, 458 misnumbered 485-487, 548; v. 7, p. 389 misnumbered 889; v. 8, p. 235, lv misnumbered 335, xlv. In some copies of v. 1, p. 327 is misnumbered 237. "General index."--V. 8, lxiv p., 3rd count. "Memoirs of the life and writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq. Composed by himself."--V. 8, 130 p., 4th count. Publishers' advertisement, v. 8, [2] p. at end. |
Description: | 8 v. : 3 maps, 1 port. ; 22 cm (8vo in 4s) |
Other Titles: | Decline and fall of the Roman Empire |
Responsibility: | By Edward Gibbon, Esq. ; In eight volumes. Vol. I[-VIII]. |
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