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THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH WITH REMARKS, ATTEMPTING TO ASCERTAIN, CHIEFLY FROM LOCAL OBSERVATION, THE ACTUAL SCENE OF THE DESERTED VILLAGE; AND ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS BY MR. ALKIN FROM DRAWINGS TAKEN ON THE SPOT
by Newell, R.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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London, England: Suttaby, Evance, and Company, Stationers' Court, Ludgate Street, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Quarto, 11.25 in. x 9 in., pp. [10] (five one-sided plates), 182. Printed by Ellerton and Henderson. Illustrated with aquatint frontis and five additional aquatint engravings. Half calf ruled in gilt over marbled boards. Gilt title to rebacked spine. Rubbing to extremities; scuffing to boards. One square inch surface scar to front board. Corners scuffed and bumped. New endpapers. Edgewear to margins of Contents page. Unmarked interior; pages bright. Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) [included in this selection], and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
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- Aardvark Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86569
- Title
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH WITH REMARKS, ATTEMPTING TO ASCERTAIN, CHIEFLY FROM LOCAL OBSERVATION, THE ACTUAL SCENE OF THE DESERTED VILLAGE; AND ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS BY MR. ALKIN FROM DRAWINGS TAKEN ON THE SPOT
- Author
- Newell, R.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Suttaby, Evance, and Company, Stationers' Court, Ludgate Street
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1811
- Keywords
- British poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- Rubbing
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