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Edward Gibbon; ed. Dero A. Saunders; pref. Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: An Abridged Version.

Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988 reprint (previously issued 1981; originally published as The Portable Gibbon, 1952).
Series: Penguin Classics.
ISBN 0140431896;
ISBN-13: 9780140431896.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, Reading.
Size: 110x180x30mm.
Page count: x,693 inc. 1 monochrome map.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers look rather battered with some creasing; pages yellowed with a little foxing to the first few; however, the spine is not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £2.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 335g.

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The bulk of this selection concentrates on the period from the age of the Antonines to the fall of the western Empire (ca. AD 98-410); a final chapter distils Gibbon's writing on the Eastern Empire in the 6th century, Mohammed & the rise of Islam, The fall of Constantinople, and the ruins of Rome in the 15th century.

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