Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Date Published: 1954-02-01
ISBN-13:9780460004763ISBN:046000476X
Description: Very Good. Ex-library. Pub. Date 1892. VOLUME VI. Normal aged pages. With normal shelf ware. Other wise in great condition. Free tracking for all domestic orders. If specific item description desired feel free to contact us. 100% guaranteed (Just let us know and we'll make it right) Express, Expedited and International shipping available upon request on items that don't offer it =) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London, Dutton: New York, Dent
Date Published: 1954
ISBN-13:9780460004749ISBN:0460004743
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Missing Dust Jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co
Date Published: 1854
Description: Acceptable. Hardbound, head and foot of spine rubbed with some loss, light offsetting to text, hinges fine, better than it may sound, still a GOOD solid reading/research copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co
Date Published: 1854
Description: Acceptable. Hardbound, head and foot of spine rubbed with some loss, light offsetting to text, hinges fine, better than it may sound, still a GOOD solid reading/research copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co
Date Published: 1854
Description: Acceptable. Hardbound, head and foot of spine rubbed with some loss, light offsetting to text, hinges fine, better than it may sound, still a GOOD solid reading/research copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co
Date Published: 1854
Description: Acceptable. Hardbound, head and foot of spine rubbed with some loss, light offsetting to text, hinges fine, better than it may sound, still a GOOD solid reading/research copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston
Date Published: 1850
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Brown, rubbed covers with gold spine titles; spine ends are worn and frayed-missing 3/4" on top of spine. Corners worn to boards. Stamp on ffep and title page. 643 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Aldine Book Publishing Co
Description: Good. -New Edition--623 pages. Interior-light signs of aging w/ light yellowing to the pages. The maroon boards and spine have only light signs of wear. -Publish Place: Boston-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Edition: Twelfth Printing
Publisher: Folio Society, London
Date Published: 2001
Description: Only the Slipcase is for sale no books included, Folio Society Red Custom Made Slipcase Box with Gold Lettering and Designing on the Side for the Last 4 Volumes in the Set in Very Good+ Condition, NO BOOKS INCLUDED only the SLIPCASE, Bumping to the Foredge Corners where the books slide in. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Compan
Description: Acceptable. ---Fair. in No Dust Jacket. Interior overall good condition. Boards have significant signs of use w/spine cover missing. Binding is Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall-Publish Place: -Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Compan
Description: Acceptable. ---Fair. in No Dust Jacket. Interior overall good condition w/foxing. Boards have significant signs of use w/spine cover missing. Binding is Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall-Publish Place: -Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers; NY [1902]
Description: Octavo, poor in dilapated condition; reading copy only; marbled page edges, leather at spine and corners, marble boards. Chapters 58 through 71; 822 pages; With notes by Dean Milman, M. Guizot, and Dr. William Smith; Hard Cover, front hinge broken, leather chipping on corners and black boxes on spine rubbed off (label on inside cover says: from library of Dave Morris, NY) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston
Date Published: 1850
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Brown, rubbed covers with gold spine titles; spine ends are worn and frayed-missing 3/4" on top of spine. Corners worn to boards. Stamp on ffep and title page. 637 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Company
Description: Very Good. -No Date/New Edition--No Jacket. Very Good 12mo-over 6 3/4"-7 3/4" tall 649 pgs. Interior-Flawless. The boards are well preserved w/ only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Philadelphia, PA-Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Company
Description: Very Good. -No Date/New Edition--No Jacket. Very Good 12mo-over 6 3/4"-7 3/4" tall 690 pgs. Interior-Flawless. The boards are well preserved w/ only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Philadelphia, PA-Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Company
Description: Very Good. -No Date/New Edition--No Jacket. Very Good 12mo-over 6 3/4"-7 3/4" tall 720 pgs. Interior-Flawless. The boards are well preserved w/ only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Philadelphia, PA-Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Company
Description: Very Good. -No Date/New Edition--No Jacket. Very Good 12mo-over 6 3/4"-7 3/4" tall 729 pgs. Interior-Flawless. The boards are well preserved w/ only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Philadelphia, PA-Size: read more
"This book should more realistically be called, the decline of the roman empire and the rise of Christianity. Much of the book is focused on the early history of the church, which makes for interesting reading if you are at all interested in that period of time. What is also interesting is the ideas Gibbon's expresses in the book. As it was written in the late 1700's before footnotes and needing to back the sources you use, it is very interestingly written with his views on politics, religion, and different parts of the world not hidden but floating on the surface. Should you read this book? That is a great question, one that I would answer yes to only if you a) were interested in the history of the church b) interested in the history of the romans and their politics and culture c) were interested in intellectual english thought in the late 1700's d) have a lot of free time on your hands or e) are a massacist. Thankfully I meet a few of those. I am glad I read it, but dont feel you need to read it to fully understand what is being asked in the book."
"Edward Gibbon is the greatest writer of history, and perhaps the best writer ever to employ the English language. Like nearly everyone, I cannot say that I read the entire text, but I say that with deep regret, and the hope that one day I can read the complete text of this awesome book all the way through. Gibbon is dead a good 200 years, but his scholarship and analysis live on now, and hopefully, forever. Of course the book is massive, but when one deals in great detail with nearly fifteen hundred years of history of the greatest empire in antiquity, one should expect nothing less. He covers the entire empire, not just the western empire, but the entire empire right to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D., and provides so much thoughtful anaylsis and endless amounts of information that one takes it for granted, until one picks up any other history book. On top of the above, Gibbon showed himself to be an absolute master of the English language, and I still consider him to be the best writer of anything that ever lived. He is the absolute master of providing detailed information about a topic in lengthy, extended sentences in which one never loses the train of the author's thought: the words flow on like a clear stream, ever carrying the reader to a better understanding of the subject without being tiresome. He uses an extensive vocabulary. One just cannot find a better way to write. Gibbon is a master of the subject matter, and his analysis is faultless. The controversial attribution by him of the cause of the empire's decline to its Christianity is not the only reason he gives for the decline, but it holds up quite well if one gives Gibbon a chance to clarify it. And his famous prognostication about the rise of the then non-existent USA and of Russia as powers in the future has clearly been fulfilled. I believe that every serious history student and buff should own the complete edition of this book. Abridgments only cheat the owners of a classic of world historiography, and an awesome piece of literature in its own right."
"I believe I shall be spending the rest of my life reading Mr. Gibbon. After all, that is how a work like this should be read, dragged out in all its majesty. The man's way with words is indescripable... I haven't read it all, I probably never will, but I just enjoy the experience of reading Gibbon more than having the urge to finish him. In fact, I have the opposite of the urge to finish him. I want this book to last forever."
"Unreviewable (in the sense of priceless). I only read it in abridgement, as I figure the full six volumes can wait for my doddering old age. If you read it, in full or in abridgement, get the latest Penguin edition! It preserves Gibbon's original sentence structure, unlike the Everyman edition which chops his flowing prose into more digestible chunks."
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