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Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Second edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine; in original green dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Frontispiece folding map and reproduction of b/w portrait painting in volume I, all others but volume 3 with frontispieces. Publisher's device on title pages. Marginalia. Authoritative work by English historian and Member of Parliament, Edward Gibbon. Published in seven volumes between 1925 and 1929, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is known for the quality and irony of its prose as well as its open denigration of organized religion. Illustrated with twelve color maps, some folding, two plans and numerous b/w offset reproductions of ancient architecture and artwork. "This is a completely new issue of Professor Bury's famous edition. All the notes have been revised, many new ones added, and the edition is equipped with a new set of maps. It has also been fully illustrated under the direction of the Editor." (Publisher) Light wear along edges of dustjackets. Some foxing of foredges of block with occasional light foxing of some pages.