Accession number
PML 130036
Creator
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Published
London : Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell ..., 1776-1788.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Collector's set of first editions of all six volumes.
Library's copy lacking half-titles (as usual?).
Portrait of Gibbon by John Hall after Reynolds.
Three folding maps by Thomas Kitchin.
Vol. 1: viii, 586, lxxxviii p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 640 p., [1] leaf of folded plates; v. 3: 640 p., [1] leaf of folded plates; v. 4: viii, 620 p.; v. 5: 684 p.; v. 6: 646, [52] p.
Volumes 3-6 have imprint: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell ...
Library's copy lacking half-titles (as usual?).
Portrait of Gibbon by John Hall after Reynolds.
Three folding maps by Thomas Kitchin.
Vol. 1: viii, 586, lxxxviii p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 640 p., [1] leaf of folded plates; v. 3: 640 p., [1] leaf of folded plates; v. 4: viii, 620 p.; v. 5: 684 p.; v. 6: 646, [52] p.
Volumes 3-6 have imprint: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell ...
Description
6 v. : ill. (port., folded maps) ; 28 cm (4to)
Provenance
Thomas Conolly of Castletown (bookplates, armorial binding); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary 3/4 calf, gold- and blind-tooled, armorial stamp at head of spine.
Classification
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Department