The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2: The History of the Empire from 395 A.D. to 1185 A.D. de Edward Gibbon - 1977

Very good book, in like dust jacket. Dust jacket is not price clipped; now in new removable protective cover. Brown boards with gold print on the spine, torch bearer blind stamped in top right corner on front. This is Modern Library Giant binding style G8. Pages are clean and unmarked. Modern Library hard cover, issued 1977 - 1982, ISBN: 9780394604022, 923 pages. 8vo (5.5" x 8.25") This is Volume 2 of 3, each volume originally sold separately. It contains Chapters 27 - 48, covering the years AD 395 - 1185. Gibbon is one of those few writers who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians. He is the clearest example that brilliance of style and accuracy of statement are perfectly compatible in an historian. The Decline and Fall can be divided roughly into three parts. The first third covers two hundred years and ends with the advent of the fifth century, A. D. The !ast two thirds are devoted to the thousand years that ended with the acquisition of the absolute dominion of Rome by the Popes in 1500. Gibbon's work, completed a hundred and fifty years ago, remains today the last and authoritative word on the subject.