Physical description

The 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. VI 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 6 focuses on the period where Rome moved away from internal civil strife toward a unified, centralised rule. Major topics include, the reign of Augustus, the transition from the Republic to the Principate and the establishment of the Pax Romana (Roman Peace).