History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon, esq. ... ; with a notice of the life and character of Gibbon and Watson's reply to Gibbon ; in two volumes ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794, author.

Contributor:

Guizot, François, 1787-1874, editor.

J.A. & U.P. James (Firm), publisher.

Peter Way Collection of Early Modern Texts (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Byzantine Empire--History.

Byzantine Empire.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Publishers' advertisements -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Way, Peter (former owner) (Way copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 26 cm

Edition:

A new edition revised and corrected throughout, preceded by a preface, and accompanied by notes, critical and historical, relating principally to the propagation of Christianity / by M.F. Guizot ...

Other Title:

At head of title: Guizot's Gibbon

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : J.A. and U.P. James ... 1851.

Notes:

"The preface, notes and corrections, translated from the French expressly for this edition."

Text printed primarily in double columns.

Publisher's advertisement: Volume 1, pages [i]-[iii].

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Way copy: each volume has partially illegible dated 19th-century autograph ("D. S[...] 1852") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Way copy: volume 1 has partially illegible dated 19th-century autograph ("Louis Z[...]g Mechanicsburg Penna. Feb. 20th 1869") in pencil on verso of blank leaf following last printed leaf; volume 2 has partially illegible dated 19th-century autograph ("Louis Z[...]g Mechanicsburg Feb. 20th 1869") in pencil on verso of blank leaf preceding back free endpaper.

OCLC:

1137016816