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To few literary figures has been given the enjoyment of such thorough bibliographical coverage as Miss J. E. Norton provided in her Bibliography of the Works of Edward Gibbon (1940). Among the most significant contributions of this volume is the clarification of much of the detail surrounding the publication of Gibbon's chief digression into political propaganda, a semi-official "white-book" entitled Mémoire Justificatif pour servir de réponse a l'exposé, &c. de la cour de France (1779). The excellence of Miss Norton's work and the prominent character of her subject combine to make further additions to the textual and bibliographical analysis of this pamphlet desirable.
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