The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume One only (of six) (Everyman's Library #434)

GIBBON, Edward

ISBN 10: 0394604032 / ISBN 13: 9780394604039

Published by Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., London / New York, 1960

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A 1960 reprint of the 1910 issuance. Volume one only of the original six-volume Everyman's Library set presenting Edward Gibbon's magnificent history of the decline of the Roman Empire. Per his introduction, Christopher Dawson praises the author for the way Gibbon: ". . .disposes of his vast material and creates out of the shapeless mass an ordered and intelligible whole." Entry 434 in Everyman's Library History series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full blue cloth-covered boards with coppery/gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to half title page, underlinings and marginalia inked to a few leaves toward front of book, and an indentation to front cover edge, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xx, 500, 4 (ads) pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume One only (of six) (Everyman's Library #434)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., London / New York
• Publication Date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394604032
• ISBN 13: 9780394604039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
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  • >>Everyman's Library Editions

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Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper

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"It was Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind," recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude.  Over a period of some twenty years, the luminous eighteenth-century historian--a precise, dapper, idiosyncratic little gentleman famous for rapping his snuff-box--devoted his considerable genius to writing an epic chronicle of the entire Roman Empire's decline.  His single flash of inspiration produced what is arguably the greatest historical work in any language--and surely the most magnificent narrative history ever written in English.  "Gibbon is one of those few who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians," noted Professor J.B. Bury, his most celebrated editor.
This three-volume Modern Library edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--with Gibbon's notes--is edited with a general introduction and index by Bury, along with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin.  The volumes are illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi.
The first volume contains chapters one through twenty-six of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.