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Synopsis

Comprising poetical works, dramas, the vicar of wakefield, citizen of the world, present state of polite learning, the bee, essays, letters. with introductory memoir by william spalding.

Item Description

Large 8vo. 9 x 6.25 inches. [2] + xxxvi + [iv] + 365 + [1] pp. Each section has separate half title and pagination Main text in double columns. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt, with contrasting title label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Extremities a little worn and rubbed and occasional foxing, but otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, protected by tissue guard, by facsimile letter of Oliver Goldsmith and by six engraved plates, including half titles. Edition of the works of Oliver Goldsmith, edited by William Spalding, Scottish writer and academic, who occupied successive chairs at the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews.