Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Title: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected
Description: London, John Murray, 1837. Leather. The Miscellanous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, complete in four beautifully bound volumes, containing many works first printed. In four volumes complete. With illustrated second titles to all volumes. Containing: To volume one: The Bee; Essay;, An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe; Prefaces and Introductions. To volume two: Letters from a Citizen of the World, to his Friend in the East; A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Natural History. In five parts [Now first collected]. To volume three: The Vicar of Wakefield; Biographies; Miscellaneous Criticism. To volume four: Poems; Miscellaneous Pieces; Dramas; Criticism Relating to Poetry and the Belles-Lettres [Now first collected] Several works under these subtitles are here '[now first printed]&apos. Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright 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). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes". In an amateur rebinding of half morocco with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart but with occasional marks. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with foxing and slight marginal chipping to first and last pages and the odd handling mark throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Oliver Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield Wakefield Poetry Vicar of Wakefield None
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Title: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected
Description: London, John Murray, 1837. Leather. The Miscellanous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, complete in four beautifully bound volumes, containing many works first printed. In four volumes complete. With illustrated second titles to all volumes. Containing: To volume one: The Bee; Essay;, An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe; Prefaces and Introductions. To volume two: Letters from a Citizen of the World, to his Friend in the East; A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Natural History. In five parts [Now first collected]. To volume three: The Vicar of Wakefield; Biographies; Miscellaneous Criticism. To volume four: Poems; Miscellaneous Pieces; Dramas; Criticism Relating to Poetry and the Belles-Lettres [Now first collected] Several works under these subtitles are here '[now first printed]&apos. Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright 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). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes". In an amateur rebinding of half morocco with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart but with occasional marks. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with foxing and slight marginal chipping to first and last pages and the odd handling mark throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Oliver Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield Wakefield Poetry Vicar of Wakefield None
Price: GBP 295.00 = appr. US$ 421.26 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: SET23-E-1
- Book number: SET23-E-1
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