W88 "delivered as a state paper to the Courts of Europe (Murray, 320), and was "translated even into the Turkish language" (Misc. Works, i. p. xx). Reprinted in Misc. Works (1796), ii. pp. 531-550, and in Misc. Works (1814), v. pp. 1-34; with, however, initial title in both editions thus: Mémoire Justificatif pour servir de Réponse à l'Exposé des Motifs de la Conduite du Roi de France relativement à l'Angleterre. A copy of the original is in the

B.M.

1779, The Annual Register, pp. 397-412, English translation of the Mémoire. (Preceded by translations of the Spanish and French manifestoes.)

AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY

1806, 4to, An Historical View of Christianity, containing select passages from Scripture, with a commentary by the late Edward Gibbon, Esq., and notes by the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Monsieur de Voltaire, and others (Cadell & Davies).

Not included in Misc. Works.

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

1796, 2 vols., 4to, Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, composed by Himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield [printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand. £2 108.].

Vol. i., p. 17, has the silhouette of Gibbon “cut with scissars (sic) by Mrs. Brown" (i. p. 435).

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'The most important part consists of Memoirs . . . of which he left Six different sketches. From all these the following Memoirs have been carefully selected and put together," vol. i. p. iv.

Dublin, 1796, 3 vols., 8vo, Miscellaneous Works . . . (printed for P. Wogan and twelve others). Silhouette of G. Errata of London edition corrected.

Contains (vol. i., pp. 277-8) matter not found in any other edition, although an English translation appears in the 1837 edition. Sévery (vol. ii., pp. 322-3) says: "Lord Sheffield faisait paraître à Dublin l'édition dite irlandaise des Miscellanées de Gibbon, et il pria M. le ministre Levade de lui remettre une notice sur Mme de Sévery [died Jan. 17, 1796] qu'il désirait placer après la lettre [Misc. Works, i., pp. 392-7] dans laquelle Gibbon raconte à son ami Sheffield la mort de M. de Sévery". Faisait paraître can hardly be fact; even thus to countenance a cheap rival reprint is strange. Presumably the copyright was still in Sheffield's hands, for which in 1812 John Murray paid him, as executor, £1000 (Hill, p. 315 and also p. 195). Basil, 1796 (1-4), 1797 (5-7), 7 vols., 8vo, Miscellaneous Works

Tourneisen, 28 fr.).

(J. J.

A curiously arranged book. Vols. i. and ii. contain the text of vol. i., 4to; vols. iii.-v. of vol. ii., 4to; vols. vi. and vii. contain translations into English of the Essai and other pieces in French, but not of the Memoire Justificatif; while all the notes, even the most minute, are massed at the end of vol. vii. The Errata of the 4to edn. are corrected. Quérard places this edition as " Basil (Strasbourg)".

1814, 8vo, “A new edition with considerable additions in Five Volumes," The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. With Memoirs of . . . by the Right Honourable John, Lord Sheffield (printed for John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street, By C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-Bar, £3 5s.; also in royal 8vo, £4 108.).

I., Memoirs and Letters; II., Letters; III., Historical and Critical; IV., Classical and Critical; V., Miscellaneous.

Contains plates of Gibbon (Warton, 1774, " by far the best likeness,” p. xi), The Pavilion and Terrace at Lausanne, Sheffield Place, Fletching Church, The Mausoleum.

The additional matter in this edition is detailed in Sheffield's " Advertisement," pp. iv. seq. There are various minor alterations in the Memoirs, especially in the first few pages; e.g. the compliment to "Our immortal Fielding" now first appears. Many additional letters; though omits an important letter of Feb. 11, 1789, to Cadell, probably withheld from rival publisher. 1814, 4to, Antiquities of the House of Brunswick [extracted and printed privately for presents].

(Mr. Toovey, of Piccadilly, catalogued a copy in morocco at £1 168.) 1815, 4to, Miscellaneous Works .. vol. iii. [uniform with vols. i. and ii. of 1796, to complete the set] with portrait by Warton (John Murray, £2 88.). 1837, 8vo, Silhouette, The Miscellaneous Works. Complete in one volume" (B. Blake, 13 Bell Yard, Temple Bar, 10s. 6d.). Also New York, same year. This is really only the two first volumes of the 1796 edition; and all in English, including "Essai," "Mémoire Justificatif" and the Sévery notice, ut supra.

TRANSLATIONS OF MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

French

Paris, 1797, 2 vols., 8vo, Mémoires de Gibbon, suivis de quelques ouvrages posthumes et de quelques lettres du même auteur, recueillis et publiés par Lord Sheffield; trad. de l'angl. (par J. E. F. Marignié), Paris, An V., 10 fr. Apparently reissued in An VI. (1798), see Quérard.

German

Leipzig, 1801-2, 2 vols., 8vo, Vermischte Werke, mit Anmerkungen, herausgegeben von J. Lord Sheffield; aus d. Engl. mit Zusätzen.

Graesse says: "n'est pas complète"; "on y ajoute; J. Wilkes, Supplement to Misc. Works of Gibbon"; which, according to Brunet, was an anonymous, privately printed piece, which had already appeared in the Observer in 1780. This piece is not in B.M. Library under Wilkes.

THE MEMOIRS SEPARATELY

1827, 2 vols., small 8vo, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, composed by himself and illustrated. .

("A collection of the most instructive and amusing lives.")

1831, 8vo, Autobiography and correspondence (Ward & Locke).

Reissued in 1869.

1839, 8vo, The Life of Edward Gibbon, with selections from his correspondence and illustrations by H. H. Milman (John Murray, 98.).

Uniform with the first issue of Milman's Decline and Fall.

Paris, 1840, 8vo, with Essay on the Study of Literature. Portrait.

1854, Memoirs of my Life and Writings (prefixed to Smith's edition of Decline and Fall, 8vo).

1869, post 8vo, The Autobiography and Correspondence, reprint of the original 4to edition, cr. 8vo (Alexander Murray, 3s. 6d.).

Boston, 1877-8, 12mo, with a critical and biographical essay by W. D. Howells ("Famous Autobiographies"). Reissued 1905 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1880, cr. 8vo, The Life and Letters, with index, by W. J. Day (with History of the Crusades, Chandos Classics).

1891, 8vo, Memoirs and a selection from his letters, edited by Henry Morley, with introduction. Printed from the 1796 edn. (Routledge, Carisbrooke Library). 1896, 8vo, with portrait from an enamel by H. Bone, R.A., after Reynolds. The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon, printed verbatim from hitherto unpublished MSS., with an introduction by the Earl of Sheffield, edited by John Murray (John Murray); also New York, 1897 (Scribner).

Memoirs F (and Appendix), B, C, E, A, D ; Memoranda and Fragments; Will of 1788 (not of 1791); Index.

Passages hitherto unpublished are so marked, not always correctly, e.g. on p. 417, the passage "We seem-society" appeared in the second edition, and the first clause in both editions.

1897, The same, Second edition.

Boston, 1898, 12mo, Memoirs, with introduction and notes by Oliver Farrar Emerson (Athenæum Press Series, Ginn).

1899, 8vo, Life and Letters (with History of the Crusades), verbatim reprint, with copious index by W. J. Day (C. Arthur Pearson).

1900, cr. and demy 8vo, The Memoirs of The Life of Edward Gibbon, with various observations and excursions by Himself, edited by George Birkbeck Hill (Methuen & Co.). Preface; elaborate notes and 68 Appendixes.

It does

My text, with the exception of a few words, is Lord Sheffield's. not, however, exactly correspond with either his first or his second edition' (p. xvii). An indispensable edition. Also New York (Putnam). 1907, pott 8vo, Autobiography of Edward Gibbon, as originally edited by Lord Sheffield, with an introduction by J. B. Bury (The World's Classics, Henry Frowde). Follows the readings of the 1814 edition.

1911, foolscap 8vo, The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon, edited by Oliphant Smeaton (Everyman's Library, Dent); also New York (Dutton).

TRANSLATIONS OF THE MEMOIRS

German

Brunswick, 1796-7, 2 parts, 8vo, Leben, von ihm selbst beschrieben; übersetzt von Ziegenbein.

Leipzig, 1797, 8vo, Leben . . . mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von J. Lord Sheffield, aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet [by F. G. S.]. Portrait.

Leipzig, 1801, 8vo, portrait.

Italian

Milan, 1825, 8vo, Memorie scritte da lui medesimo.

GIBBON'S LETTERS, ETC.

1896, 2 vols., 8vo, Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794), edited by Rowland E. Prothero (John Murray).

The frontispieces are the Silhouette of Gibbon and The Pavilion and Terrace, Lausanne.

Letters garbled or truncated in Misc. Works are here printed entire. This, however, is not a complete collection of Gibbon's Letters, and must be supplemented by the other works below and also by the Misc. Works, both editions. 1897, Same, Second edition.

1896, 8vo, The Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd. Recorded in letters . . . edited by J. H. Adeane (Longmans, Green & Co.).

Contains two letters, one portion hitherto unpublished (p. 201).

1897, 2 vols., 8vo, Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy, by General Meredith Read (Chatto & Windus). Thirty-one illustrations, including portraits of Gibbon and Deyverdun from the originals at La Grotte.

Contains unpublished letters, etc., of Gibbon, but (except one letter) translated into English. Paris, 1882, 2 vols., small 8vo, Le Salon de Madame Necker d'après des documents tirés des archives de Coppet par Le Comte D'Haussonville (Calmann Lévy).

Contains unpublished letters and verse from Gibbon to Suzanne Curchod. 1882, 2 vols., small 8vo, The Salon of Madame Necker, translated by H. M. Trollope.

Lausanne and Paris, 1911-12, 2 vols., 8vo, La Vie de Société dans le Pays de Vaud à la fin du dix-huitième siècle. Par M. et Mme. William de Sévery (Lausanne, Georges Bridel & Cie ; Paris, Librairie Fischbacher).

Many illustrations, connected with Gibbon.

In vol. ii. are two chapters (i. and ii.) devoted to Gibbon, containing letters, etc., in the French original, many of which Meredith Read had translated in his book.

Not in the B.M. I have not seen vol. i., which is out of print.

1895, cr. 4to, Proceedings of the Gibbon Commemoration (1794-1894), by R. H. T. Ball (Longmans, Green & Co.).

Contains catalogue of the Gibbon exhibition, with quotations, etc.

There appears to be no complete uniform edition of Gibbon's Works. The "Edition Lausanne" (Fred. de Fau & Co., New York, 1907) includes History, 7 vols., 12mo, Autobiographies and Private Letters.

CONTROVERSIAL REPLIES TO THE HISTORY

1776, October (Misc. Works, iv. p. 602), Anonymous [James Chelsum, D.D.]. Remarks on the two last chapters of Mr. Gibbon's History of . . . . In a Letter to a Friend, 8vo.

Second edition, enlarged, with additional remarks by Dr. Randolph, Lady Margaret Professor, was published under Chelsum's name in 1778, Oxford, 12mo. Translated into Italian, though probably unpublished (Spedalieri, Confutazione, 1827, Preface, p. 10).

Cambridge, 1776, Richard Watson, D.D., F.R.S., and Regius Professor of Divinity. An Apology for Christianity in a series of letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq., 12mo. Six Letters, with an "Appendix" by R. Wynne, Rector of St. Alphage, London.

Also Cambridge, 1777, 12mo; Dublin, 1777, 8vo; 1791, 12mo; 1797, 12mo. Also included in "Two Apologies," 1806, 8vo; 1816, 8vo; 1820, 8vo; Edinburgh, 1821, 12mo; 1839, Bohn. Translated into Italian, though probably unpublished (Spedalieri, ut supra).

1776, William Salisbury, B.D. Strictures on Mr. Gibbon's Account of Christianity and its First Teachers.

Inserted in his translation of J. B. Bullet's Histoire de l'établissement du Christianisme, 8vo.

York, 1778, William Burgh, LL.D.

An inquiry into the belief of the Christians of the first three centuries respecting the one Godhead of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, 8vo.

Dublin, 1778, Smyth Loftus, M.A., Vicar of Coolock. A Reply to the Reasonings of Mr. Gibbon in History of ; which seem to affect the Truth of Christi

anity; but have not been noticed in the Answer which Dr. Watson hath given to that Book, 8vo.

1778, East Apthorp, M.A., Vicar of Croydon. Letters on the Prevalence of Christianity before its Civil Establishment. With Observations on a late History of . . ., 8vo.

1778, Henry Edwards Davis, B.A., of Balliol College, Oxford. An Examination of the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of Mr. Gibbon's History of the . . . . In which his view of the Progress of the Christian Religion is shewn to be founded on the Misrepresentation of the Authors he cites: and Numerous Instances of his Inaccuracy and Plagiarism are produced, 8vo (J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall). In my copy, which bears the book-plate of I. Baker Holroyd, there is on title page, in old writing resembling Sheffield's: "supposed by some to be written by Douglas Bishop of Salisbury". He was at this time only Canon of Windsor (D.N.B.).

1778, A Gentleman [Francis Eyre]. A few remarks on the History of chiefly to the two last chapters, 8vo.

An anonymous Roman Catholic.

relative

[Gibbon's Vindication appeared on January 14th, 1779.]

1779, [Francis Eyre]. A short Appeal to the Public. By the Gentleman who is particularly addressed in the Postscript of the Vindication . . ., 8vo.

1779, Henry Edwards Davis, B.A. A Reply to Mr. Gibbon's Vindication, wherein the charges brought against him in the "Examination " are confirmed, and further instances given of his Misrepresentation, Inaccuracy, and Plagiarism, 8vo (J. Dodsley).

1780, George Laughton, D.D. The Progress and Establishment of Christianity, in reply to the 15th Chapter of the Decline . . . 4to. Also 1786, 4to.

[1780 ?], not published. Lord Hailes. "That which is placed in the foremost rank, etc," 8vo. (Being observations on the account of the early Christians given by Gibbon.) [1780 ?], not published. Lord Hailes. "To the virtues of the Primitive Christians, etc.," 8vo. (Further observations on the same.)

York, 1781, Joseph Milner, A.M. Gibbon's Account of Christianity considered; together with some strictures on Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, 8vo.

1781, Henry Taylor, Rector of Crawley and Vicar of Portsmouth. Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand Apostacy, with Reflections and Observations on the Fifteenth Chapter of Mr. Gibbon's History, 8vo.

Birmingham, 1782. Joseph Priestley, LL.D. An History of the Corruptions of Christianity, 2 vols., 8vo.

Also Birmingham, 1793, 2 vols., 8vo. See also Correspondence between Gibbon and Priestley in Misc. Works, ii. pp. 265-72.

1783, J. Ogilvie, D.D. An inquiry into the Causes of the Infidelity . . . of the Times with observations on the writings of . . . Gibbon, 8vo.

Norwich, [1784], Thomas Howes. A Discourse on the Abuse of the Talent of Disputation in Religion, particularly as practiced (sic) by Dr. Priestly (sic), Mr. Gibbon and others of the modern sect of philosophic Christians. Preached at the Cathedral Church, Norwich, June 23, 1784.

Reprinted in Critical Observations on Books antient and modern [by Thomas Howes], 4 vols., 8vo, London, 1776-1800.

Chester, 1784, George Travis, A.M. Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq., in defence of the Authenticity of the 7th Verse of the 5th Chapter of the First Epistle of St. John, 4to.

Three of these Letters had been published in 1782 in the Gentleman's Magazine. There were enlarged editions of the book in 1785, 8vo, London; and 1794, 8vo, London. See Preface to Porson's Letters, p. ix, where the second edition is given as 1786, apparently wrongly.

Oxford, 1784, Joseph White, D.D. Sermons preached before the University of Oxford in 1784 [Bampton Lectures: A Comparison of Mahometism (sic) and Christianity, in their History, their Evidence, and their Effects], 8vo.

Second edition, London, 8vo, 1785; fourth edition, 1792; new edition, 1811, 8vo (with title: A Comparison . . .). As to the authorship of these lectures, see Hill, p. 320. Winchester, 1785, James Chelsum, D.D. A Reply to Mr. Gibbon's Vindication of Containing a review of the Errors still retained in these chapters, 8vo. Edinburgh, 1786, David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid Growth of Christianity,

4to.

Second edition, Edinburgh, 1808, 12mo. Birmingham, 1787, Joseph Priestley, LL.D., F.R.S. Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever, Part ii., containing a State of the Evidence of revealed Religion, with Animadversions on the two last Chapters of the first Volume of Mr. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8vo (printed by Pearson & Rollason for J. Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Churchyard, London). Part i., referring to Hume, had been published at Bath in 1780. The second edition of Part i. and the first edition of Part ii. (referring to Gibbon) were both published at Birmingham in 1787.