The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith. London: William Pickering, 1831. Later printing. Duodecimo. clxxviii, 156pp. Original brown three quarter leather over decorative paper covered boards with gilt ruling on covers and gilt lettering on black labels of spine. Marbled edges. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece gravure with tissue guard. Illustrated title page. The Aldine Edition of British Poets. “Oliver (Goldsmith, one of the most celebrated English writers), the subject of this memoir, was the second son, born at a distance of seven years from the first. The slender recourses of his parents seem to have been exhausted in the comparatively expensive education of Henry; our poet’s prospects were therefore necessarily of a humbler kind…” (Rev. John Mitford). Light wear along edges and small closed tears at leather of sine. Decorative cover paper browned along edges. Light age toning of endpapers and block. Brief pencil notation on free front endpaper. Frontispiece page stained at top and left lower corner not affecting image. One inch tear at edges of page 119. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ condition. g. Hardcover. (38027) $50