The miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, esq. . With memoirs of his life and writings, composed by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by the right honourable John, Lord Sheffield.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Borrowdale, Cumbria
NT 3040350
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plates . ill.., ports.. . 8vo.. Provenance: Inscriptions on endpapers: John Marshall; inscriptions on title pages: H.C. Marshall Westwood Hall [i.e Henry Cowper Marshall (1808-1884)].. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf binding; blind rolled inside double gilt fillet; gilt-tooled on spine; marbled endpapers and edges; black spine label, lettered: Gibbon's Works.
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821), author