History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire – Gibbon

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History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire – Gibbon

S$198.00

Title: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon, Betty Radice and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (intro and ed)
ISBN: –
Publisher: The Folio Society, 1997
Condition: Hardcover, Illustrated with numerous contemporary engravings. Bound in blocked vegetable parchment. Over 3,000 pages. 8 volumes; Book size: 10″ x 6¾”. Near fine.  Enormous set, extremely heavy. Shipping overseas will cost extra.

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Title: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon, Betty Radice and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (intro and ed)
ISBN: –
Publisher: The Folio Society, 2008
Condition: Hardcover, Illustrated with numerous contemporary engravings. Bound in blocked vegetable parchment. Over 3,000 pages. 8 volumes; Book size: 10″ x 6¾”. Near fine  Enormous set, extremely heavy. Shipping overseas will cost extra.

From the publisher:

Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece has never been surpassed for scholarship or elegant prose, remaining an everlasting historical classic. The spread of Christianity; the Barbarian invasions; the various sacks of Rome by Goths, Huns and Vandals; the Crusades; the conquests of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane; the rise of Islam … From the Antonine Emperors to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ranges over thirteen centuries with flair and wit. A spectacular cast includes Attila the Hun, the Prophet Mohammad, the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, who re-conquered North Africa and Italy with the aid of his illustrious general, Belisarius.

Volume I: The Turn of the Tide
Volume II: Constantine and the Christian Empire
Volume III: The Revival and Collapse of Paganism
Volume IV: The End of the Western Empire
Volume V: Justinian and the Roman Law
Volume VI: Mohammed and the Rise of the Arabs
Volume VII: The Normans in Italy and the Crusades
Volume VIII: The Fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome


‘I love Gibbon for three reasons: the story, the style and the jokes. ‘Story’ is hardly the word; The Decline and Fall is an epic drama, stuffed full of tremendous characters, most of them monstrous, nearly all of them larger than life. To enjoy that quite individual, remarkable style – has any prose-writer ever surpassed him in his ear for the rhythm of the English language? – you have to take him at his own speed: don’t rush him, savour the sentences. Only that way will you capture that marvellous dry humour, which is once again all his own. Who could improve on that marvellous description of someone’s reputation – it doesn’t even matter who’s – as depending on ‘the uncertain testimony of his own applause? ’ – John Julius Norwich

“I was immediately dominated both by the story and the style. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages, and very soon found myself a vehement partisan of the author.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL