THE

HISTORY

OF THE

Becline and Fall

OF

THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

BY

EDWARD GIBBON, Esq.

A NEW EDITION,

WITH MAPS AND PORTRAIT;

COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. PRÍESTLEY, HIGH HOLBORN;

J. OFFOR, NEWGATE STREET; W. H. REID, CHARING CROSS;
PRIESTLEY AND WEALE, HIGH STREET, BLOOMSBURY;
M. DOYLE, HIGH HOLBORN; AND D. A. TALBOYS, OXFORD:

By J. F. Dove, St. John's Square.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Great care has been taken with the present complete Edition of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in eight volumes, to render it as acceptable to the Public as any preceding impression. The Greek and Latin quotations have been attentively examined, before going to press, and if any inaccuracies have escaped during the printing of the work, it is hoped they will be of a nature not materially important.

St. Paul's School,
Nov. 1821.

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