1838 Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. 8 Vols.'The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. New edition complete in eight volumes, published 1838. Frontispiece to Volume I and folding maps to Volumes I and V (note the Volume I map is detached but remains neatly folded and fully intact). Edward Gibbon's 'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776 88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate