1893 2vol The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
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1893 2vol The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon:
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
By Edward Gibbon; Edited by Geo. A. Smith
1893 - Philadelphia - Gebbie and Co.
14.5\" by 11.5\"; [2] 15pp. [plates] 17-254pp.; [4] 255-504pp. [4]
DETAILS
A very scarce and attractive American edition of Gibbon\'s seminal history of the fall of Rome.
Illustrated with 25 portraits, 25 chromolithographs, 50 photogravure plates (collated complete), and many illustrations in the text.
Preceeded by a brief biography of the author.
Including reproductions of artworks by Giraud, Kaulbach, Spangenberg, Rubens, and many other artists.
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Gibbon\'s prose, the vehicle for this subtle historical vision, has been found by some to be decorous and mannered to a fault. Perhaps this estimation relies on no very close reading, since Gibbon\'s writing arguably does exhibit change and development within an overall continuity of manner. But if it were truly so, then this would enforce the judgement that the Decline and Fall is a very different book when viewed in the perspective of literary aesthetics, rather than as a contribution to a series of intellectual debates. For in the latter, the Decline and Fall is remarkable for the way Gibbon pushed at the edges of received opinions, and found fresh and fruitful ways of linking approaches and subjects which elsewhere lay unconnected. It is for this reason that the Decline and Fall occupies the summit of European Enlightenment historiography. It engages with, carries forward, and extends what is most vital in that body of writing. (DNB)
With silk moire cloth endpapers.
Complete in two volumes.
CONDITION
In original half-morocco bindings with gilt lettering. Externally, generally smart, though with some light rubbing and wear to the heads and tails of the spines. Front hinges are slightly strained, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and mainly clean, with just the odd handling mark. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED.
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1893 2vol The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon:
$1033.71