Description
Item Description:The 1796 edition was printed in 2 volumes ; volume 3 has imprint: London: printed for John Murray, 1815, with materials reprinted to be uniform with the first two volumes.
Signatures: *¹ A⁴ a-b⁴ c¹ B-4U⁴ ; A-4Z⁴ *¹ ; *⁴ b² B-4S⁴ 4T² *¹
Pagination: Volume 1. xxv, [1], 703, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates (portrait) -- Volume 2. viii, 726, [2] pages -- Volume 3. x, 691, [3] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded).
Errata included.
The portrait in volume 1 is a silhouette; the portrait in volume 3 is an etching, signed "Engraved by James Fittler A.R.A."
Gibbon's epitaph is printed on an additional leaf.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, folded genealogical table ; 29 cm (4to)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.