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
1796
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3155244
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plate ; 4to. Vol 1 only. Provenance: Nineteenth-century large Harpur, Crewe, Lovell and [unidentified] armorial bookplate, with inscription: Calke Abbey Library [i.e. Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet (1824-1886), m. 1845 Georgiana Stanhope Lovell (1824-1910)] Binding: Eighteenth-century full diced leather binding; gilt fillet and gilt tooled borders; spine gilt decorated and gilt lettered. Gibbon’s Miscelaneous works / Vol. I. Headband loose.
Makers and roles
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821), editor