Folio Archives 295: Eyewitness to History by Robert Fox 2008
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Eyewitness to History by Robert Fox - Four volume set 2008
These four volumes contain between them one hundred and eleven first person eyewitness accounts of significant events in world history. The tales vary in length from a handful of pages to thirty or more and cover events from ancient Egypt through The Roman Empire, Anglo-Saxon England, Byzantium, the Crusades, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Crimean war, World War II and the Vietnam War, and ending with the events of “Nine-Eleven” in New York.
Each episode is fascinating in its own way, and I actually read this over a year or so, reading one account at a time between reading other books as a form of pace change from works of fiction and other histories.
All four volumes are arranged in a similar way, so I have chosen volume three (Empire and After) to review in detail as an example of the other three.
The four volumes each have 24 bound in pages of colour and monochrome photos of contemporary paintings, ruins or events, and are introduced by the author. There is a bibliography and index at the back of each book. The books are:-
* - The First Reporters, 481pp.
* - Discovering New Worlds 481pp.
* - Empire and After, 471pp.
* - In Our Time, 489pp.
The books are bound in black buckram, each volume cover blocked with a different colour image. The bevel-edged black slipcase (26.3x19.2x19.7cm.) has a titled and pictorial front in red and gold. The endpapers are plain dark grey.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
These four volumes contain between them one hundred and eleven first person eyewitness accounts of significant events in world history. The tales vary in length from a handful of pages to thirty or more and cover events from ancient Egypt through The Roman Empire, Anglo-Saxon England, Byzantium, the Crusades, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Crimean war, World War II and the Vietnam War, and ending with the events of “Nine-Eleven” in New York.
Each episode is fascinating in its own way, and I actually read this over a year or so, reading one account at a time between reading other books as a form of pace change from works of fiction and other histories.
All four volumes are arranged in a similar way, so I have chosen volume three (Empire and After) to review in detail as an example of the other three.
The four volumes each have 24 bound in pages of colour and monochrome photos of contemporary paintings, ruins or events, and are introduced by the author. There is a bibliography and index at the back of each book. The books are:-
* - The First Reporters, 481pp.
* - Discovering New Worlds 481pp.
* - Empire and After, 471pp.
* - In Our Time, 489pp.
The books are bound in black buckram, each volume cover blocked with a different colour image. The bevel-edged black slipcase (26.3x19.2x19.7cm.) has a titled and pictorial front in red and gold. The endpapers are plain dark grey.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
2lasweetlife
Thanks for this wonderful review. It led me to acquire what has now become one of my favorite sets in my FS collection. Interestingly, unless I’m just not seeing it, I don’t think this collection appears in the 2008 or 2009 prospectus.
3HonorWulf
>2 lasweetlife: Another oddity is that Warwick has a second printing pictured, but Folio '78 only lists one printing, so looks like they missed that one.
