History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
By Edward Gibbon
- Release Date: 1776-01-01
- Genre: Ancient History
Description
The frontispiece portrait of Gibbon is after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the three engraved folding maps are of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire, and a folding map of Constantinople. This book is a study of Rome which is based on what Gibbon wrote over two hundred years ago.