Gibbon

DECLINE & FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE BY GIBBON Volumes 1-4 IN MIXED SET DUSTJACKETS EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY # 434 435 436 DATED 1966 & OTHER VOL 4 DATED 1969 EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY # 474 VOL 1-3 PURPLE B/W DJ HAS ROMAN SOLDIER CORNERING A MAN

1966 · 29798 — HBDJ Volumes 1-4 IN MIXED SET DUSTJACKETSWITH DIFFERENT ILLUSTRATOR ON VOL. 4 EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 434 435 436 DATED 1966 & OTHER VOL 4 EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 474 DATED 1969 HAS BLUE TOPSTAIN VOL 1-3 PURPLE B/W DJ HAS ROMAN SOLDIER CORNERING A MAN DEATH OF AN EMPEROR DJ DRAWN BY Tom Poulton & OTHER 2 VOLS HAVE DIFFERENT ILLUSTRATIONS ON PURPLE DJ'S VOL 4 DATED 1969 Emperor Justinian on the WHITE DUSTJACKET WITH BLUE & WHITE Drawing by Eric Fraser RedOrange cloth hardcover WITH GOLD GILT ON SPINE CVR with dustjacket 4 3/4 X 7 1/4 in. VG/VG Approx . clean bright tight unmarked copy ! Text clean and unmarked . The binding is tight and square .BACK OF DJ SAYS FEW OF 500 AUTHORS 534 PGS NO ADS IN BACK DUSTJACKET drawing by Eric Fraser Plain blue Endpapers ON VOL 4 & VOL 1 2 & 3 HAVE GOLD & WHITE DECORATED ENDPAPERS. VOL 1-3 PURPLE B/W DJ HAS ROMAN SOLDIER CORNERING A MAN DEATH OF AN EMPEROR DJ DRAWN BY Tom Poulton & OTHER 2 VOLS HAVE DIFFERENT ILLUSTRATIONS ON PURPLE DJ';S VOL 4 DATED 1969 Emperor Justinian on the WHITE DUSTJACKET WITH BLUE & WHITE Drawing by Eric Fraser 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 9000000 MILES AT 1 TIME. END OF ROMAN EMPERORS. THUS ROMAN REPUBLIC FORMED. <br /><br /><br /> EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY J. M. DENT PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN hardcover