Edward Gibbon: Shoemaker's bill

Scope and Content

A receipt account by David Roch, cordonnier, 1 January 1786, in French, with a transcription taken from Revue historique Vaudoise, December 1950, and 'The personal and household bills of Edward Gibbon', an article from Notes and queries, 29 October 1949, pp. 474-476.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Received from the library of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1982.

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