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. IX 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. While previous volumes dealt with the Roman Empire, Volume 9 picks up the story after the "Fall of Rome" and tracks the peninsula’s evolution through the dawn of the 20th century.