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.VIII 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 8 shifts the lens eastward to document the civilisations that challenged Rome and Byzantium, eventually giving way to the Islamic Golden Age.