The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith; now first uniformly collected. Volume First. Containing The Author's Life And His Essays. Embellished with copperplates

People / Organizations

• Oliver Goldsmith (Author)

Imprint

Perth: printed by R. Morison Junior, for R. Morison and Son, Booksellers, Perth; and A. Guthrie, Edinburgh, M,DCC,XCII. [1792]

Publication year

1792-1792

ESTC No.

N49135

Grub Street ID

33588

Description

7v.,plates : port. ; 8⁰

Note

Vol. 1: the author's life and his 'Essays'; vol. 2: poetical works and the lives of Lord Bolingbroke and Dr. Parnell; vol. 3: 'The vicar of Wakefield' with two subsidiary titlepages dated 1791; vols. 4-5: 'The citizen of the world', each with subsidiary titlepage; vol. 6: 'Th good-natur'd man' and 'She stoops to conquer', each with subsidiary titlepage; vol. 7: 'Poems for young ladies' with subsidiary titlepage.

The subsidiary titlepages have imprints naming booksellers N. R. Cheyne, Edinburgh, some also adding W. Coke, Leith. Evidently a reissue of the edition with general titlepage imprints reading thus.