Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself

Edward Gibbon

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107444560

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With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself

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Volume 2
Edward Gibbon
Edited by John Baker Holroyd

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
First published in:: 1796
Online ISBN:: 9781107444560
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107444560

Subjects:: Ancient History, Literature, Classical Studies, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Volume 2 contains abstracts from Gibbon's reading, with his reflections on what he read, and extracts from his journal (sometimes in French, with a parallel translation), short pieces on various aspects of Roman history, an outline of his planned history of the world from the ninth to the end of the fifteenth century, literary criticism, a history of the House of Brunswick (ancestors of the Hanoverian British royal family), and a riposte to a criticism of his own great work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which is also reissued (in the 1896–1900 edition by J. B. Bury) in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

INDRODUCTION
pp iii-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

I - ABSTRACT of the Books Mr. Gibbon read—with Reflections
pp 1-93

II - Extracts from his Journal
pp 94-312

III - A Collection of his Remarks, and detached Pieces, on different Subjects
pp 313-404

IV - Outlines of the History of the World
pp 405-438

V - Essai sur l'Etude de la Littérature
pp 439-496

VI - Critical Observations on the Design of the Sixth Book of the Æneid
pp 497-526

VII - A Dissertation on the Subject of L'Homme au Mafque de Fer
pp 527-530

VIII - Mémoire justificatif pour servir de Réponse, &c
pp 531-550

IX - A Vindication of some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
pp 551-630

X - Antiquities of the House of Brunswick
pp 631-706

XI - An Address, &c
pp 707-718

INDEX
pp 719-726

Errata
pp 727-727

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