The first three volumes of Gibbon\'s Decline And Fall (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993.
What is more, it remains wonderfully readable: witty, elegant and intriguing, full of the author\'s own pers.
This year is the bicentenary of Gibbon\'s death, which has been widely noticed in the press, but even after two hundred years his book is still an authoritative work on Roman history.
Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is now available for the first time in many years.
The first three volumes of Gibbon\'s Decline And Fall (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993