BIB_ID
294937
Accession number
MA 739.1
Creator
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Display Date
1788.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 29.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 18 letters, bills, and documents of the English historian Edward Gibbon. Items are cataloged individually in 18 records (MA 739.1-18); see collection record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Providing autograph corrections to the proof sheets for p. iii-vi of the Preface to vol. IV of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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