Volume 2: Constantine and the Christian Empire, 348 pages including index: maps to endpapers: very clean and good overall. Contents and condition: Volume 1: The Turn of the Tide, 320 pages including index: maps to endpapers: small scar and small area of discoloration to front cover:overall very clean and good. Edited and with introduction by Betty Radice, the text used in this edition is reproduced from the Everyman Edition,1910, published by J M Dent and Son. Synopsis: An eight volume edition of Gibbons History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, first published in 1776 with completion in 1788. 1780: approximately 6.2 by 10 inches tall: black and white illustrations: cream card case to each volume. The Folio Society Ltd, 1983: first of this edition: A complete set of 8 brown hardcovers with gilt decoration to front and spine bound by The Pitman Press Ltd, Bath, using Tego Buckram blocked with a design based on a binding by Henry Walther c.
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