Description: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. A New Edition, Complete in Four Volumes, to which is prefixed, Some Account of his Life and Writings. Printed for J. Johnson, London, 1806, frontispiece of Goldsmith by Joshua Reynolds in volume I, six illustrated plates by Charles Burney, six by Thomas Stothard and two by Richard Courbould, full leather prize bindings, 9 x 6”, 8vo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing to corners and edges. Double filleted boards with prize stamp “Coll. Can. Can’t.” A few small blemishes to the surface of each volume with minor instances of ink staining and splattering. All edges marbled. Gilt dentelles bright and clean. Bookplates of unknown owner adhered to pastedowns with Armorial bookplate in Volume II. Old hand gift inscription dated Christmas 1809 of James Norgate of Caius College Light toning throughout with minor instances of foxing. Free of known markings. Bindings are all intact. All edges marbled. Please see photos. Early edition, prize binding of Oliver Goldsmith. Caius College bindings, Cambridge. Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. Goldsmith attended Trinity College and was tutored by Theaker Wilder, an eccentric Irish academic and first Regis Professor of Greek. His education mainly seemed to have given him a taste for fine clothes, playing cards, singing Irish airs and playing the flute. He was described by his contemporaries has being prone to envy, a congenial and impetuous and disorganized personally who once planted to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his ship. Thomas de Quincey wrote of him “All the motion of Goldsmith’s nature movies in the direction of true, the natural, the sweet, the gentle.” COLL1806CHJX-623
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Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: J. Johnson
Topic: Literature
Subject: Poetry
Original/Facsimile: Original
