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In addition to its appearance in pamphlet form, Gibbon's Mémoire was reprinted in contemporary newspapers, periodicals, and in the author's Miscellaneous Works edited by Lord Sheffield (Norton, pp. 33, 35). As the Norton Bibliography mentions only the Annual Register as an English periodical source, two additions to this category may be cited. The Mémoire Justificatif is to be found in the London Magazine, XLVIII (1779), 582ff., and in John Almon's Remembrancer; or, impartial repository of public events, VIII (1779), 374ff. These are among the most accessible contemporary sources of the work in this country but they should be used with care. In both the Annual Register and Remembrancer versions the last four pages of the original pamphlet are transposed into the middle of the text and a half page is omitted. This error, obviously the result of a compositor's carelessness, leaves the text in the London Magazine the only reliable source of its type.
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