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Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City'. The Historian and his Reputation 1776-1815.

WOMERSLEY, David (born 1957).

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. [Enlightenment Thought] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 452. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Occasional notes to text margins in light pencil. A bright, crisp copy, some minor pencil notes to text. Fine. Item #62565

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