Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Title: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith with Life and Notes.
Description: London, Henry Bohn, 1845. Cloth. A four-volume set of the works of Oliver Goldsmith, a well-known novelist, poet and playwright. A four-volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Ink inscriptions to the front paste down and front free end paper of Volume I, and to the front free end papers of Volume II, III and IV. Frontispieces, and engraved vignettes to the title pages, to each volume. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). This four-volume set collates his works as set out below: Volume I contains a life of the author; poems; letters; and the plays 'The Good-natured Man' and 'She Stoops to Conquer&apos. Volume II contains 'The Vicar of Wakefield'; essays and criticisms. Volume III contains 'The Citizen of the World', with introductory remarks. Volume IV contains 'An Inquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning'; No. I-VIII of Goldsmith's literary magazine The Bee; biographies; prefaces and introductions; and an appendix. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally sound, with a little wear to the head and tail of the spines, and some bumping to the extremities. Mark to the front board of Vol IV. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with some offsetting to the plates and the leaves surrounding the plates. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Oliver Goldsmith English Literature Literary Anthology English Literature None
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Title: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith with Life and Notes.
Description: London, Henry Bohn, 1845. Cloth. A four-volume set of the works of Oliver Goldsmith, a well-known novelist, poet and playwright. A four-volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Ink inscriptions to the front paste down and front free end paper of Volume I, and to the front free end papers of Volume II, III and IV. Frontispieces, and engraved vignettes to the title pages, to each volume. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). This four-volume set collates his works as set out below: Volume I contains a life of the author; poems; letters; and the plays 'The Good-natured Man' and 'She Stoops to Conquer&apos. Volume II contains 'The Vicar of Wakefield'; essays and criticisms. Volume III contains 'The Citizen of the World', with introductory remarks. Volume IV contains 'An Inquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning'; No. I-VIII of Goldsmith's literary magazine The Bee; biographies; prefaces and introductions; and an appendix. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally sound, with a little wear to the head and tail of the spines, and some bumping to the extremities. Mark to the front board of Vol IV. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with some offsetting to the plates and the leaves surrounding the plates. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Oliver Goldsmith English Literature Literary Anthology English Literature None
Price: GBP 185.00 = appr. US$ 264.18 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 841M12
- Book number: 841M12
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