Physical description

Book is part of a 25 volume set with red cloth bindings and gold filigree design to rib.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Flyleaf has the title with edited by Henry Smith Williams L.L.D. In twenty five volumes-Vol. iii and London “The Times” 1908 in Gothic script

Summary

The 1908 edition of The Historians' History of the World is a monumental work of Edwardian scholarship, representing a specific era of "universal history" where the goal was to synthesise all human knowledge into a single narrative. Volume 3 is a pivotal installment in the series, shifting the narrative from the "stagnant" (as viewed by 1904 scholars) empires of the East to the dynamic birth of Western civilisation.