The Citizen of the World; or Letters From a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East (2 Vol Set)
by GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
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J. Parsons 1794. 2 VOL SET, POSSIBLY ORIGINAL BINDING, duodecimo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to title plate on black spine, frontispieces, vol 1- v + 216pp, vol 2- 194pp, illus, scruffy/delicate (heavy bruising & scuffing to extrems, v heavy scuffing & loss to spines & extrems, v heavy cracking to hinges- boards very shaky & tentatively holding, heavy soiling to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, presentation plates & ink stamps to front pastedowns of both vols, moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, historical ink annotation to full title pages of both vols)
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- The Citizen of the World; or Letters From a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East (2 Vol Set)
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- GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. Parsons 1794
- Keywords
- Olive Goldsmith letters collection literature philosophy culture China east Chinese correspondence
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