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Livres anciens et modernes

Gibbon

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON, ESQUIRE With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narrative, by John Lord Sheffield

Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1796-1815

2695,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, États-Unis d'Amérique)

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Détails

Année
1796-1815
Lieu d'édition
London
Auteur
Gibbon
Éditeurs
Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell and W. Davies
Edition
RARE FIRST EDITION OF ALL THREE VOLUMES. The work here includes
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

3 volumes. First Editions of the first two volumes issued in 1796 and first edition of the third volume, issued in 1815. Illustrated with frontispiece engravings in volumes one and three and with epitaph leaf and folding genealogical table in volume three. 4to, handsomely bound in full contemporary calf by White of Doncaster, the covers with gilt fillet lines at the borders around a more elaborate blind rolled frame, the spines with wide raised bands ruled in gilt creating compartments crosshatched in blind, contrasting red and black labels gilt lettered and numbered, additional gilt ruling at spine tips, gilt hatched board edges at corners, rolled blind tool repeated on the turn-ins, page edges marbled, silk ribbon markers bound in. xxv, errata, 703; viii, 726, errata, ad leaf; x, 691 pp. A very beautiful and proper set, the bindings extremely attractive with only some minor and expected evidence of age, the text in excellent order, all very desirable.
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