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• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Memoirs of My Life and Writings
• Beriton, April 14, 1761. ( In a Short Excursion From Dover. )
• Beriton, August 4, 1761. ( In a Week’s Excursion From Winchester Camp. )
• Beriton, January 1762. ( In a Month’s Absence From the Devizes. )
• Beriton, July 26, 1762. ( During My Summer Residence. )
• Last Illness and Death of Gibbon
• “ From Gibbon to Lord Sheffield
• “ Gibbon to Lord Sheffield At Brighton
• “ Gibbon to Lord Sheffield

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Essai sur l’Etude de la Littérature, 1761; an English translation appeared in 1764; Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne (with Deyverdun), 2 vols., 1767, 1768; Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Æneid, 1770; The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. i., 1776; vols. ii. and iii., 1787; vols. iv., v., and vi., 1788; his Vindication, 1779; Antiquities of the House of Brunswick, edited by Lord Sheffield, 1814; Memoirs of my Life and Writings, edited by Lord Sheffield, 2 vols., 1827; by H. H. Milman, 1839; G. Birkbeck Hill, 1900.

Among the editions of the History are:—

Oxford Edition, 8 vols., 1828; edited by H. H. Milman, 12 vols., 1838, 1839; by Dr. W. Smith (with notes by Milman and Guizot), 8 vols., 1854, 1855; Bohn’s British Classics (with variorum notes), 7 vols., 1853-5. Many later editions, among them Lubbock’s Best Hundred Books, 1892; An Abridged Edition, by J. Adams, 1789; Student’s Gibbon, by Dr. W. Smith, 1857; French edition, annotated by M. and Mme. Guizot, 1812.

The Miscellaneous Works, which include the Memoirs, Letters, etc., edited by Lord Sheffield, 2 vols., 1796; new edition, 5 vols., 1814; Letters (1753-1794), edited by R. E. Prothero, 1896.

Life.—J. C. Morison (English Men of Letters); 2nd edition, 1878; Algernon Cecil, Six Oxford Thinkers, 1909.