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Edward Gibbon's huge history of the Roman and Byzantine Empires - The Decline and Fall, was originally published as a multi volume edition from 1776 to 1788. This is an (undated but 1950's) two volume edition, published by Modern Library USA & Penguin .
Rather than concentrating solely on the fall of Rome ( and the Western Roman Empire, personified by the sack of Rome in 412, and the final emperor in 476, and takes the story up to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the final collapse of the eastern Byzantine Empire, and the interaction of the empire and its successor states within the broad sweep of European history. He then looked forward to the role of the Renaissance in the eventual rise of 'Western' culture.
Obviously, this is a large work, so both volumes are heavy ,running to over 1200 pages each, with footnotes, index etc
Solid in red cloth, there is some fade to the cloth covers, and fade to the spines, internally unmarked. Lacks the original dustjackets.
