Memoires de Gibbon : Suivis de quelques ouvrages posthumes et de quelques lettres du même auteur (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Memoires de Gibbon : Suivis de quelques ouvrages posthumes et de quelques lettres du même auteur (v.2)
Other titles: Memoirs
Classmark: Anglo-French 4 1797/GIB
Creator(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Additional creator(s): Marignié, Jean Étienne François (1755-1830) (Other); Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd Earl of (1735-1821) (Other)
Related people: Marignié, Jean Étienne François; Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd
Publisher: Chez le Directeur de la Décade philosophique
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): An Ve [1797]
Language: French
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/260215
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016676549705181
Description
Volume 1: Page xxxiv wrongly numbered xxiv. Volume 2: Page 237, 256, 318 and 432 wrongly numbered 137, 156, 518 and 532.
Vol. 2, p. 417-452: Contains 19 letters by Gibbon about revolutionary events from Sept. 1789 to April 1793, and in a note, a letter from Lady Sheffield to Gibbon about the September Massacres.
Translation of Memoirs.
Martin & Walter 2, 14778.
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