Author: John Forster
Title: The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith
Description: London, Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John Forster's fascinating biography of the life and times of Oliver Goldsmith in a beautiful Zaehnsdorf signed binding. The first edition of this celebrated biography of Oliver Goldsmith by John Forster, Victorian biographer and literary critic. Bound in beautiful full calf signed Zaehnsdorf. A work by Forster, exploring in depth the whole life and times of Oliver Goldsmith, important author of The Vicar of Wakefield among others. Covering his whole life, opening with his birth and closing with events after his death, mostly regarding his family, until 1801. Dedicated to Charles Dickens.With illustrated half title and further illustrations in text. Complete with four books in one volume. From the library of Antoinette Heckscher, Viscountess Esher, with her bookplate to front pastedown. In full calf binding with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine and extremities, titles in gilt to morocco spine labels, renewed marbled endpapers. Externally smart with rubbing to the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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