1995 Modern Library Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794.
    [History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire]
    The decline and fall of the Roman Empire/Edward Gibbon; the text edited by J. B. Bury, with the notes by Mr. Gibbon, the introduction and the index as prepared by professor Bury; with an introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin; illustrated from the etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi.
        p. cm.
    Contents: v. 1. The history of the Empire from A.D. 98 to A.D. 395—
        v. 2. The history of the Empire from A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185—
        v. 3. The history of the Empire from A.D. 695 to A.D. 1430

eISBN: 978-0-679-64148-3

    1. Rome—History—Empire, 30 B.C. – 476 A.D. 2. Byzantine Empire—History. I. Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861–1927. II. Title.
DG311.G5 1995
937′.06—dc20          94-27080

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