New York: American Publishers Corporation. Very Good- with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Maroon cloth hardbacks. Each of the five volumes has gilt to top edge as well as spine and has blindstamping to front and backs. Gilt is dulled but readable on spines. Wear to edges with boards barely showing on most corners. Vol. 1 and 2 have tears to gutters but holding. Light overall age-tanning. No marks. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

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Bookseller: The Book Lady (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 756
Title: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Five Volumes
Author: Gibbon, Edward
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Publisher: American Publishers Corporation
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: N.D.
Keywords: Roman Empire, History
Bookseller catalogs: History;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...