GIBBON, Edward (1737-94). Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature, London, chez T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, 1761, 8°, FIRST EDITION (some browning and spotting), contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached); An Essay on the Study of Literature, London, for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1764, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2ll. of advertisements at end (final advertisement leaf detached), contemporary calf (rebacked, inner hinges split) [Norton 1 and 6; Rothschild 937 and 939]; and 2 others. (4)

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GIBBON, Edward (1737-94). Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature, London, chez T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, 1761, 8°, FIRST EDITION (some browning and spotting), contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached); An Essay on the Study of Literature, London, for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1764, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2ll. of advertisements at end (final advertisement leaf detached), contemporary calf (rebacked, inner hinges split) [Norton 1 and 6; Rothschild 937 and 939]; and 2 others. (4)

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Originally written and published in French, to gain a wider circulation and because this was the language in which Gibbon then habitually thought. The English translation was subsequently not his own.

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