Miscellaneous works … with memoirs of his life and writings, composed

by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield by Edward Gibbon

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First edition

London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1796. First edition, 2 vols., 4to, pp. xxiv, 703; viii, 726, 2 ; silhouette frontis portrait of Gibbon; full contemporary tree calf, rebacked, old spine with red and black morocco labels laid down; bottom panel of spine on vol. 1 scraped; good and sound. U1 in Vol. I is a cancel, as usual. A supplementary third volume published in 1815 is not present. Rothschild 949; Norton 131. Item #24870

• Binding: Leather

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