The English Essays Of Edward Gibbon Gibbon, Edward ; Craddock, Patricia B. (Ed.) Essays,History,Nonfiction

8vo 650pp. from front flap: "Of the miscellaneous papers left by Gibbon at his death to the discretion of his executors, only the memoirs and journals have enjoyed modern editions. The works not included by Gibbon's friend Lord Sheffield in his enlarged edition of 1815 have remained in manuscript; those Lord Sheffield printed have been available only as the conscientious eighteenth-century editor chose to let them be seen. The present edition includes all his writings in English, early or late, complete or incomplete, unexpurgated and unimproved, with the exceptions of the autobiographical materials--memoirs, journals, and letters, and the Decline and Fall." #02405. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. DJ VG-: mild edge wear, age toning, spine sunned, NOT clipped.