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[005296] [Goldsmith, Oliver] The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. A New Edition, in Four Volumes. To Which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings. ill. Reynolds, J. et al. London: F. C. And J. Rivington et al, 1820. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Good. Four volumes complete – Volume One – [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-118; [3], 2-273pp, [1]; Volume Two – [3]-iv, [3], 4-470pp; Volume Three, [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-476pp; Volume Four – [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-468pp. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spines in six panels, title label to second panel, volume label to fourth, remaining panels with gilt frame and fleuron corner pieces joined with a triple fillet, covers with thick line border and floral roll frame, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, marbled endpapers, and all edges marbled

Small split to head of upper joint of second volume but holding well, spines faded, rubbed to extremities, some minor marking to covers. Internally some light browning and foxing, especially to plates, but generally fairly clean

With an engraved portrait frontispiece engraved by Holloway after Reynolds, and seven other engraved plates by Stothard, Burney, and Corbauld, engraved by Woodthorpe, Angus, and Dadley. Gift inscription to Walpole from Tunnard? dated 1830, to head of each title, and with the Walpole roundel bookplate to front pastedowns

Includes Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, his poems, including The Deserted Village, and his epistolary Citizen of the World