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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire - With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself (Paperback)
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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire - With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself (Paperback)
Series: Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire 2 volume Set, Volume 1
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On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), his unpublished papers
were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of
Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Gibbon had
written six manuscript accounts of his own life, and, according to
Sheffield, had always intended to publish his autobiography in his
lifetime. The memoir as edited by Sheffield begins with Gibbon's
family history, and taking in his education, travels, and career as
a historian, finishes with his anxiety over the future of Europe in
1788. Sheffield then continues the story until Gibbon's death
through his correspondence, providing a linking narrative, and
this, together with 210 other letters to and from Gibbon, takes up
Volume 1. His great work, The History of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire, is also reissued (in the 1896-1900 edition by J.
B. Bury) in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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