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Routledge
Few books of scholarship have held up so well to public attention over the last two hundred years. At a time when the materials for this history were scant, a mind as great as Gibbon's was able to absorb everything known on the subject and dominate it with his historical erudition and inimitable literary style. The first volume, highly acclaimed on publication, was quickly reprinted in spite of an... Read more
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6
Biography
Edward Gibbon
'A masterpiece of historical penetration and style.' - Printing and the Mind of Man
'I can recollect no historical work from which I have received so much instruction ... It is a work of very high merit indeed.' - William Robertson
