BIB_ID
102852
Accession number
MA 270
Display Date
1785 Sept. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 140 p.), bound ; 32.6 cm
Notes
Written on the rectos and some versos of 136 pages, with contemporary foliation. Also with a preceding manuscript title page (1 p.) and table of contents (3 p.).
Provenance
Bookplate of Johh, Earl of Sheffield; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Being a catalog of the library of the English historian Edward Gibbon. With over 1,000 entries organized into six broad categories, each entry including title and author, and most entries including additional publication information, number of volumes and format.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (34.8 cm)
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