Author: Geoffrey Keynes
Title: The Library of Edward Gibbon: A Catalogue of His Books
Description: London, The Bibliographical Society, 1950. Cloth. A second impression of this uncommon catalogue of the library of Edward Gibbon, who wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The second impression of this uncommon work in a quarter cloth binding. Most copies of the first edition of this work, published in 1940 by Jonathan Cape, were lost in the Blitz. This is a reissue by The Bibliographical Society. An account of the titles of the approximately 2,500 works held in the library of Edward Gibbon, the historian best known for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.Geoffrey Keynes began his career as a First World War surgeon, before making notable innovations in the fields of blood transfusion and breast cancer surgery. He was also a publishing scholar and bibliographer of English literature and English medical history, focusing primarily on William Blake and William Harvey. In a quarter cloth binding. Externally fairly smart, with faint spotting to the cloth and a little bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, except for offsetting to the free end papers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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