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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, VOLS 2 & 3 ONLY ARE SMALLER REDDISH LEATHER & DATE 1925 & 1926 IN OLIVE GREEN DUSTJACKETS VOLS 2 & 3 # 435 & 436 Top Spine DJ, NF+ VG-, AS-IS 1ST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, VOLS 2 & 3 HAVE DARK OLIVE DJS WITH ROUND EMBOSSED SYMBOL FRONT BTM RT WITH INITIALS J M D Gold Gilt FRONT OF COVER & DJ, DJ WHICH HAS TINY CHIPS WEAR TO EXTREMITIES & SMALL CHIP FRONT DJ ON VOL3, , THESE ARE SMALLER REDDISH LEATHER & HAVE SAME SYMBOL WITH INITIALS J M D GOLD GILT AS THE DUSTJACKETS DO ON VOL2 & 3 , 41/4 X 6 3/4 IN. APPROX,TITLED & DECORATED IN GOLD GILT ON SPINE CVR, Back of DJ lists dickens little dorrit thru poe s Tales , & dickens great expectations Thru MILTONS POEMS, 462 PGS , NO ADS IN BACK & 523 PGS NO ADS IN BACK ,GOLD GILT TOPSTAIN ON PGS OUTER EDGES,VOLS 2 & 3 HAVE DARK OLIVE DJS WITH ROUND EMBOSSED SYMBOL FRONT BTM RT WITH INITIALS J M D Gold Gilt FRONT OF COVER & DJ, .Masterpiece of Organized Detail, ANCIENT HISTORY, GIBBON S blames Christianity for its Fall. Once North Africa was seized from Rome, there was a lack of trade & STABLE CROPS WHICH FED ROMANS. Gibbon became the first modern historian of ancient Rome. It covers a singular subject, ranging over 14 centuries and half the globe, focused on the Romans and, despite moving at lightning speed, only manages to get to the year 640 by the end of volume 4 .Augustus is "at first the enemy, and at last the father" of Rome. WRITTEN AROUND TIME AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 476AD WAS FALL. ROMULUS AUGUSTUS REMOVED FROM POWER. COVERED 9,000,000 MILES AT 1 TIME. END OF ROMAN EMPERORS. THUS ROMAN REPUBLIC FORMED.