Endorsements and signatures to receipts and bills : manuscripts signed.

Being a small collection of receipts and bills that were originally laid in to a Receipt book (MA 725); including the statement by Strahan & Cadell for the printing and publishing of the first and second Editions of "A Vindication [of some passages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire" (1779) with an accounting of how many were sold, how many given to the author, how were left and with an accounting of how the profit from the two editions was shared evenly between Gibbon and the publishers; including two lengthy and detailed statements of accounts from London bookseller Peter Elmsly which date from July 15, 1782 to August 22, 1783 in the first four-page statement and from September 1, 1783 to June 20, 1788 in an eleven-page statement, each of which are signed by Elmsly as paid in full; a bill from the Swiss silversmith, Papus et Dautun for the purchase a silver terrine, a silver serving spoon, 6 spoons and 6 coffee spoons, dated January 1787, signed by Gibbon on May 2, 1787 and countersigned as paid in full by Papus & Dautun on May 3, 1787; including a bill signed by Gibbon and "Gilliard" dated March 7, 1789; and a two-page statement dating from April 2, 1785 to September 29, 1785 by Samuel Weibel, Lausanne, and signed by Gibbon January 1, 1786 and by Weibel in February 1786.