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Excerpt from Catalogue Number 231, Association Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Documents, Old and Modern: Including Recent Purchase Made at the Disposal of the Library of Edward Gibbon, Author of "the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" First edition. With inscription on end-paper Emily Eden, fr Nightingale, 1860. Signature of a later owner appears below. Om M. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.