The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Six Volume Set

Gibbon, Edward; Womersley, David (introduction)

ISBN 10: 041516320X / ISBN 13: 9780415163200

Editore: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1997

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Six volume set in slipcase. Text is unmarked in all six volumes; pages are bright. Bindings are all tight and square. Spines are all just a little faded. No dust jackets, as issued. Slipcase shows a little wear around the corners and the top of the slipcase is dust soiled. Overseas/Priority shipping at cost. Codice articolo 061034

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Titolo: The History of the Decline and Fall of the ...

Casa editrice: Routledge/Thoemmes Press

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione libro: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: None Issued

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Few books of scholarship have held up so well to public attention over the last two hundred years. At a time when the materials for this history were scant, a mind as great as Gibbon's was able to absorb everything known on the subject and dominate it with his historical erudition and inimitable literary style.
The first volume, highly acclaimed on publication, was quickly reprinted in spite of an ambitious first print-run of 1000 copies. Careless proofreading meant numerous errors had to be rectified in later editions. It was not until the third edition, reprinted here, that the layout was improved and the footnotes appeared at the foot of each page and chapter numbers were placed in the margins.