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. VII 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 7 shifts the narrative from the fall of the Roman Republic and the early Empire (covered in Vol. 5 and 6) into the complex era of the later Roman Empire and the rise of the Early Byzantine Empire.