Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With memoirs of his life and writings, composed by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield. In two volumes. ...
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1794
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3026479
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plate . 4to. Provenance: Eighteenth-century manuscriptinscription: W Hervey [possibly General William Hervey (1732-1815)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; gilt tooled border; twentieth-century rebacked spine gilt lettered: "Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works. 1796".
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821), author