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Secondhand book for saleEdward Gibbon; eds. Antony Lentin and Brian Norman.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Publisher: BCA, 1999 (book club reissue, reprints the Wordsworth edition of 1998).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; bound-in cloth bookmark.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives.
Size: 163x240x58mm.
Page count: xxxiv,1089pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and rumples on the dustjacket, page edges slightly grubby; dustjacket and pages starting to yellow with age; in other respects doesn’t look too heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.
This item £10.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)[
Publisher’s price for paperback £3.99]
Weight without packaging: 1449g.
This abridged edition features 28 chapters in full, together with Gibbon's footnotes, explanatory comments, and the omitted chapters given in précis.
Illustrations:no
Maps & plans:16Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: Roman emperors
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: half-page
Index: no[PC2]
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