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. Volume I has a complex history of its own. It was published in six editions between 1776 and 1789. Three of the six contain authorial revisions, marked AR: First editions, 1776 Feb 17 (a and b-AR), 1000 copies; Second edition, 1776 June 3; 1500 copies; Third edition, 1777 May (AR); 1000 copies; Fourth edition, 1781 Apr 4 (AR); Fifth editions, 1782 Apr 11 (a and b); Sixth edition, 1789 Dec 1. Volumes II, III were published together in three editions between 1781 and 1789: First editions, 1781 Mar 1 (a and b; b sometimes called the second edition); Second edition, 1787 (n/a); Third edition, 1789 Dec 1. published with the sixth edition of volume one as a new set. Volumes IV, V, VI were published together in one edition only: 1788 May 8; 3000 copies each.
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 (1896–1900) 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.