Outline of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The six-volume work "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) has been reprinted many times over the years in various editions. Editions. The original edition was published between 1776 and 1789 in six volumes by the firm of [William] Strahan & [Thomas] Cadell, in the Strand, London. A one-volume edition with an "introductory memoir of the author" by William Youngman was published by J.O. Robinson (London, 1830). The 1838–1839 Rev. H.H. (Dean) Milman edition, the  first English critical edition, was published in 12 volumes. A second Milman edition, which serves as the basis for most electronic and public domain versions such as the Gutenberg, was published in 1846 in 6 volumes. The original J.B. Bury edition (1896–1914) was 7 volumes. The 1910 Everyman's Library edition in 6 volumes was prepared by Oliphant Smeaton. This was reprinted in the US with Smeaton's notes in two volumes by Modern Library in 1932 (later divided into three volumes, and the text without his notes was reprinted as volumes 40 and 41 of the "Great Books of  the Western World" series in 1952. The 1946 Heritage Press edition of Bury's is three volumes. It divides the chapters into Volume 1: 1–26, Volume 2: 27–48, Volume 3: 49–71. The latest complete edition in 3 volumes was edited by David Womersley, and published by Allen Lane (London) and Penguin Press (New York) in 1994.