Author: GOLDSMITH (Oliver):
Title: The Roman History from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire. The Fourth AEdition.
Description: London: Printed for C. Bathurst, L. Davis, W. Owen, G. Robinson, T, Cadell, T. Evans, and Leigh and Sotheby. 1781 2 volumes. Large 8vo, 207 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], x, 487 [488 - 498]; viii, 501 [502 - 512 index], contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, gilt spines, red morocco labels; boards a little worn, ex-library with shelf marks in white ink on spines and library stamp of Maynard Smith and Outran Smith Library on the lower margin of the front free end-paper in each volume. Goldsmith's Roman History was published in 1769. The Monthly Review, was rather hostile; after several pages, the reviewer concludes, "Upon the whole, this epitome cannot be perfectly understood by any but those who have read the histories from which it is extracted: it is indeed intended only as an outline, but as an outline it is very defective; it is sometimes broken, and sometimes distorted; yet, perhaps, after all, it is better for common readers to be content with the knowledge which it conveys, than to drudge through the other voluminous works of other writers for more."

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