Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire, Volume 2: With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself

On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Volume 2 contains abstracts from Gibbon's reading, with his reflections on what he read, and extracts from his journal...

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Main Author: Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794 (Author)
Other Authors: Sheffield, John Holroyd 1735-1821 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1796
Series:Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
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Summary:On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Volume 2 contains abstracts from Gibbon's reading, with his reflections on what he read, and extracts from his journal (sometimes in French, with a parallel translation), short pieces on various aspects of Roman history, an outline of his planned history of the world from the ninth to the end of the fifteenth century, literary criticism, a history of the House of Brunswick (ancestors of the Hanoverian British royal family), and a riposte to a criticism of his own great work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which is also reissued (in the 1896–1900 edition by J. B. Bury) in the Cambridge Library Collection
Item Description:Includes index
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 727 pages)
ISBN:9781107444560
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107444560

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