Title page from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 12

Part of: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 12

The twelth and final volume of a 12 volume set of Gibbon’s magesterial history of the end of the Roman Empire, one of the greatest works of history written during the Enlightenment.

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…every reader(’s) … attention will be excited by an History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in the history of mankind. The various causes and progressive effects are connected with many of the events most interesting in human annals: the…