Principal Works
Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature [An Essay on the Study of Literature] (essay) 1761
Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne, Pour l'An 1767 [with Georges Deyverdun] (literary criticism) 1768
Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne, Pour l'An 1768 [with Georges Deyverdun] (history) 1769
Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid (essay) 1770
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 6 vols. (history) 1776-88
Mémoire Justicatif pour servir de Réponse à l'Exposé de la Cour de France (essay) 1779
A Vindication of Some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (essay) 1779
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself [edited by John, Lord Sheffield] (anthology) 1796, revised 1814
The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon [edited by John Murray] (autobiography) 1896
The Private Letters of Edward Gibbon. 2 vols. [edited by R. E. Prothero] (correspondence) 1896
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 7 vols. [edited by J. B. Bury] (history) 1896-1900
Gibbon's Journal to January 28, 1763 [edited by D. M. Low] (journal) 1929
Le Journal de Gibbon à Lausanne [edited by Georges A. Bonnard] (journal) 1945
The Letters of Edward Gibbon. 3 vols. [edited by J. E. Norton] (correspondence) 1956
Memoirs of My Life [edited by Bonnard] (autobiography) 1966
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