Gibbons’s The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire (A one volume abridgement)

1960 hardcover edition. In good condition. Dust jacket showing some wear and tear.

For Gibbon and his contemporaries, when the Roman empire declined, civilization declined, to be re-established slowly and painfully after the Renaissance. to explain and chart that decline in massive detail was gibbon’s greates endeavour and he succeeded brilliantly.