To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible…

Edward Gibbon
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To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1854). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith, p.97
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To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1854). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith, p.97

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