Assertion: gibbon | /r/CapableOf | publish his first book
Facets:
value: in 1761
type: TEMPORAL
value: upon his return to england
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Upon his return to England, Gibbon published his first book, Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature in 1761, which produced an initial taste of celebrity and distinguished him, in Paris at least, as a man of letters.