FINE: Gibbon DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Limited Editions Club 1946

Description: Limited Editions Club, 1946. First Edition 16th Series#978/1500. Half Leather over marbled boards. Fine. Gian Battista Piranesi; maps. Small quartos (10 1/4" x 7" x ~1"), 7-volume set; half black Morocco with gold-stamped lettering & "declining" Roman column design in gold by Clarence Pearson Hornung for each spine + marbled boards; Introduction and Index by Professor Bury; illustrated with photogravure reproductions of engraved sepia plates by Piranesi: book design by Philip McPharlin; bound by Russell-Rutter Company; double-spread frontispiece, 2 maps, & 9 double-spread engravings / Vol. II: 12 comparable engravings / Vol. III: 12 engravings / Vol. IV. 11 engravings / Vol. V: 11 engravings / Vol. VI: 11 engravings / Vol. VII: 11 comparable double-spread sepia engravings; brown map endpapers of "The Roman Empire at the Death of Augustus A.D. 13" [with endpaper-maps changing chronologically in each succeeding volume]; all page-edges stained brown by publisher for protection; Vol.: I xvi, [xvii-xxviii] + 345 pp.; Vol.: II [prelims. ignored henceforth] 347- 738 pp.; Vol. III.: 739-1103 pp.; VOL. IV: 1105-1480 pp.; Vol. V: 1481-1848 pp.; Vol. VI: 1849-2212 pp.; Vol. VII: Index, 2213-2537, [2538] + [2] Colophon. No slipcase. Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club laid in. Weight: 14 lbs. 9 oz. VERY SCARCE LEC EDITION published right after the conclusion of World War II: Very Attractive, handsomely bound, & splendidly illustrated in photogravure; well introduced & indexed by an expert; marginally annotated by Gibbon; finely printed by E. L. Hildreth and Aldine Printers, set in linotype Granjon, with composition by American Book-Stratford Press; using Worthy special paper & bound by Russell-Rutter Company to create this superb edition of the classic history by Edward Gibbon on the Decline and Fall of Ancient Rome. Endpaper maps of the Roman Empire range from the Age of Augustus in vol. I to "Europe A.D. 1360" in vol. VII. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY: nearly as NEW: Very tight, bright, & clean. Leather backstrips are dark with bright gilt but without chipping or red-rust. Leather and marbled boards are strong and immaculate with minute traces of edgewear. All 80 engraved plates (most double-spread) are present; have crisp coloration, excellent registration, and are without any foxing or fading. No stray personal markings, thumbprints, stains, underlining or annotations. Protective transparent mylar dust jackets have been added. Lack slipcase. No previous owner or remainder marks. It is extremely rare to find this set in condition like this. Just look at ebay "sold" listings for this title, and you will see the difference.

Price: 1875 USD

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