The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume the Sixth and Volume the Seventh

This two book set we are offering consists of the 6th and 7th volume of the series. It is in good shape especially taking into consideration the age of these works. Volume the Sixth was published in 1783 and Volume the Seventh in 1790. Bound in a medium brown calf with tooled board edges, spine cords and accents. Volume 6 retains title label on spine, volume 7 is missing this label. the leather has some rubbing and darkening of the edges. Hinges are cracking and will need to be handled with care. All corners are bumped and showing some board, mostly upper. The leather of both spines has worn away at head and tail, more so on Volume 6. Hand sewn headbands have darkened somewhat with age, solid with little frayed cording. Upper edges of textblocks tinted dark red, remaining edges are red speckled. Tooling on edges of boards mostly remains on fore-edges, faded on tails and very faded on heads. Unique sewn endpapers have yellowed over time and shadowed the underlying leather. Owner's name neatly inked on fep's of both volumes. Volume 6 also has a book plate affixed on front paste-down. Front fep of Volume 7 has parted from tail to nearly head and will need to be handled with care. Interior text of both volumes has yellowed with age, very early faint foxing. Tight in their bindings. Owner's pencilled notation concerning estate located on gutter of "Table of Contents" of the sixth volume, "Preface" of the seventh. No other markings appear. The sixth volume contains 420 pages of text; seventh volume has 424. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…