Author:Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon
(1737–1794)

Edward Gibbon

Works

• Essai sur l’Étude de la Littérature (1761, French)

• An Essay on the Study of Literature (1764) [1]

• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1789)

• A Vindication of Some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1779)

• Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Æneid (1770)
• Memoirs of my Life and Writings

Works about Gibbon

• "Gibbon, Edward," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Gibbon's Autobiography" in Studies of a Biographer, Vol. 1 (1898) by Leslie Stephen
• "Gibbon, Edward," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Gibbon, Edward," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gibbon, Edward," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)