Notes: Title page states it is abridged, no credit for the abridgement. Taken from the Robert Baldick translation (based on a match of the initial paragraphs). There are 43 chapters to the originals 45. One illustration on frontispiece, uncredited and unsigned. ISBN is based on the SBN on the back cover and copyright page (430 00391 9). "First published in the "Bancroft Classics" 1971", "This impression 1974".