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Distributed for The Grolier Club

Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Illustrated by Treasures in the Chapin Library at Williams College

A catalog of the exhibition mounted at the Chapin Library to provide contemporary background for publication of Edward Gibbon’s great work including items owned by Gibbon, as well as his manuscript.

48 pages | 1 | 6 x 9 | © 2000

Ancient Studies

History: Ancient and Classical History

Library Science and Publishing: Publishing


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Table of Contents

Introduction by George Edwards / EXHIBITION / A Year of Three Classics in Caslon / Contemporary Opinions / Gibbon’s Biography / Gibbon’s Library / Gibbon’s Scholarship / Gibbon’s Roman Portraits / APPENDICES / On Reading Gibbon’s Decline and Fall / Chronology / Biographical Quotations / Lytton Strachey: From Portraits in Miniature / On Himself / 18th Century / 19th Century / 20th Century / The Bogus Trinity at Trinity

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