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3 Volumes. 4to. pp. xxv, [1]errata, 703; viii, 726, [2]errata & ads; viii, 691, [1]. 2 engraved frontis. (incl. silhouette portrait in Vol. I), folding genealogical table & tipped-in epitaph leaf in Vol. III. with the cancels in Vol. I (U1 signed *U) & Vol. II (3K4). contemporary sprinkled calf (joints cracked, front joint of Vol. I weak, spines dry, occasional hint of foxing). armorial bookplates & signature of Sir George Osborn Morgan, first baronet [1826-97], lawyer and politician. First Edition of all three volumes. The celebrated historian s miscellaneous works include letters, notes, and diaries of his early studies, a number of youthful essays, previously unpublished works, and a fragment entitled Antiquities of the House of Brunswick , dated 1790 but not separately published until 1814. Gibbon s memoirs were assembled by Lord Sheffield from the six separate drafts of an autobiography which Gibbon left behind at his death. The supplementary volume, printed in 1815, is frequently absent. NCBEL II 1723. Norton 131 & 136. Rothschild 949 & 951 (lacking epitaph leaf in Vol. III).

Gibbon's autobiographical account detailing his own life and works.