THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Volume One)
By D M Low.
Description
It was in Rome in 1764, Gibbon records, "on the fifteenth of October in the gloom of evening, as I sat musing on the Capitol.that I conceived the first thought of my history." But it was many years before he "grappled with the decline and fall of the Roman Empire." The first volume appeared in 1776. The book sold, in the publisher's phrase, like a threepenny pamphlet on current affairs. "Lo, there is just appeared a truly classic work," wrote Horace Walpole. The second and third volumes were published in 1781, and in 1783 Gibbon left England to live in Lau...
ISBN(s)
0701107138, 9780701107130
