NMLP P-038102 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London · 1776
Volume I exists in two states, recorded by both Norton and Rothschild: the earlier state has leaves X4, a4 and b2 uncancelled with the errata still uncorrected in the text; the later state consists of the opening sheets reset after Strahan doubled the run from 500 to 1,000 copies, at which point many errata were corrected in the type
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038102 for "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038102, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).