William Holl after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Edward Gibbon

Steel-engraving. C1840. 125mm by 100mm (image) 265mm by 180mm (sheet). Edward Gibbon (1737- 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
Slight soiling at very edge of sheet." Item #1968

Price: $95.00