Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City'
Subtitle: The Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 28, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780198187332
First sentence: Gibbon's struggle to determine his public reputation began with the revisions he made in chapters fifteen and sixteen for the second edition of 1776, and the third edition of 1777.