Edward Gibbon
Putney 1737 - London 1794
Gibbon, Edward, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Main works: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 voll., London, Strahan & Cadell 1776-1789; Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, 5 voll., 2ª ed., London, J. Murray 1814.
Bibliography: John Greville Agard Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, 4 vols.: vol. 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764, 1999; vol. 2, Narratives of Civil Government, 1999; vol. 3, The First Decline and Fall, 2003; vol. 4, Barbarians, Savages and Empires, 2005, Cambridge University Press.