gibbon's memoirs unabridged, in print & online

Bingley mentions Edward Gibbon's Memoirs in this comment.  The edition cited is greatly abridged and supposedly highly censured.

There is a complete facsimile print edition around titled  The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon: Printed verbatim from hitherto unpublished MSS., with an introduction by the Earl of Sheffield.  Highly enjoyable for people who love to read memoirs. 

Online, there is Gutenberg:  Memoirs of My Life and Writings.

There doesn't seem to be a Google Book available yet.

Comments

[Irene Hahn]

I have to correct my above comment on the abridged version. Bingley and I discussed it, and he told me that from what the intro says, the Penguin edition doesn't follow Lord Sheffield's edition but has amalgamated the various manuscripts to avoid repetition, and in some places restored Gibbon's text where Sheffield had bowdlerized it.

I now recall that what I had -- and since must have thrown out as I can't find it -- was an old second-hand edition, apparently compiled to honor Victorian sensibilities.