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Edward Gibbon; ed. Betty Radice.
Memoirs of My Life.
Published London: Folio Society, 1991 (text previously issued by Penguin, 1984).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops; slipcase, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Bath Press, Avon.
Size: 167x258x29mm.
Page count: text 247pp; plates 13pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: on this copy the slipcase has a few marks, but is not heavily worn; binding starting to sag a bit, but otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 790g.

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Contents: Family history; Early years, Westminster School; Oxford; Lausanne; Service in militia; Grand tour — Buriton-London — father's death; London life — Parliament — Decline & Fall; Lausanne.
Appendices: Gibbon's notes to chapters VII & VIII; Lord Sheffield's continuation of the Memoirs.

Illustrations: 13 pages of illustrations, and illustrated endpapers, all monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 20pp
Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: 2
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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See also | Gibbon | Folio Society |

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