The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in Seven Volumes

3928 pp. Complete in seven volumes. 8 3/4 x 5 7/8. 8vo. Brown leatherette spines over orange cloth, gilt titles, decorations & rules, black panels. Color maps on endpapers. Extensive appendices, bibliography and index. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. It stands as a major literary achievement of the 18th century because it was adopted as a model for the methodologies of modern historians. This led to Gibbon being called the first modern historian of Ancient Rome.