The German translation, with the notes of Wenck.

Unfortunately this learned translator died, after having completed only the first volume; the rest of the work was executed by a very inferior hand.
The notes of Wenck are extremely valuable; many of them have been adopted by M.Guizot; they are distinguished by the letter W.[*] [Footnote *: The editor regrets that he has not been able to find the Italian translation, mentioned by Gibbon himself with some respect.

It is not in our great libraries, the Museum or the Bodleian; and he has never found any bookseller in London who has seen it.] III.

The new edition of Le Beau's "Histoire du Bas Empire, with notes by M.St.Martin, and M.Brosset." That distinguished Armenian scholar, M.
St.Martin (now, unhappily, deceased) had added much information from Oriental writers, particularly from those of Armenia, as well as from more general sources.

Many of his observations have been found as applicable to the work of Gibbon as to that of Le Beau.
IV.