[Rarebooks] FS: Edward Gibbon, Letter & Autobiographies, 3 vols bound by Sotheran

[Bob Petrilla]

Gibbon, Edward. PRIVATE LETTERS OF EDWARD GIBBON (1753-1794). With an
introduction by the Earl of Sheffield. Edited by Rowland E. Prothero [with]
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF EDWARD GIBBON. Printed verbatim from hitherto
unpublished mss. Edited by John Murray. London: John Murray, 1897. Second
Edition. Three (3) volumes. pp: xii, 400; 430 index; xv, 435 index. The
Letters comprise two volumes. Frontispiece portrait in the Autobiographies
volume; silhouette portrait in Volume II of Letters. Bound by H. Sotheran
in straight-grain olive morocco, tan spines; gilt-ruled covers,
compartments, and turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges
rough-trimmed.  9" x 5.75" Very Good.    $225.00


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