Item #2416 Miscellaneous Works. Edward Gibbon.

Miscellaneous Works

London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1796. Frontispiece, xlv, 703p: 726p, [2]: Frontispiece, x, 691p. Volume I & II contemporary calf, with gilt ruled spines and old rebacking preserving the original spines. Volume III in contemporary calf with gilt ruled spines and marbled end papers. Both boards detached. Contents: Giibbon's Autobiography, which first appeared here; correspondence with preeminent men and women of his time, both French and English abstracts of his readings, observations on different subjects; outlines of the history of the world; an essay on the study of literature, etc. Contemporary notation on the inside frontispiece in volume I in brown ink. Lowndes II p886. Corners a little bumped and rubbing to the headband otherwise internally clean. Item #2416

Price: $650.00