[1776] - Gibbon publishes first volume of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Useful Links and Further Reading

• The Online Library of Liberty, ‘Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols [1776]’,
  http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1681&Itemid=27
• Eugene Y. C. Ho, ‘Edward Gibbon, Historian of the Roman Empire’,
  Part I http://www.his.com/~z/gibho1.html; Part II http://www.his.com/~z/gibho2.html
• Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life and Writings,
  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6031/6031-h/6031-h.htm
• James Cotter Morison, Gibbon (London, 1878),
  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18851/18851-h/18851-h.htm