Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

The first of six volumes, and part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World, originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 471 pp. 8vo. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with the complete Vedute di Roma of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, with the Piranesi etchings of memorials and public works.