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Verlag: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972
Anbieter: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, USA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine binding. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding with titling in gold to the spine, with dustjacket; xix, [1], 2-650 pages, including the Index; there is a previous owner name penned on the endpaper; the dustjacket has a couple of closed tears near the spine at the fold.~~Gibbon's rather disdainful mother died when he was quite young; after her death he took up residence at the Westminster School boarding house, run by his "Aunt Kitty" [Catherine Porten]; he considered that she imparted to him "the first rudiments of knowledge, the first exercise of reason, and a taste for books which is still the pleasure and glory of my life." [see Norton, Letters, vol. 3, 45-48]. ~~. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.