Poems and plays. By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. to which is prefixed the life of the author

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• Poems and plays. By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. to which is prefixed the life of the author
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People / Organizations

• B. Newbery ("printed for")
• Oliver Goldsmith (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for B. Newbery and T Johnson, 1780.

Publication year

1780

ESTC No.

T146788

Grub Street ID

193400

Description

[2],x,272,[6]p.,plates : port. ; 12°.

Note

The publisher's names are fictitious

The titlepage is engraved

The last 6-pages contain the epilogues to a play and a contents list

It is stated on the verso of the final leaf that: "This edition contains several additions and corrections never before printed; being the only perfect one ever published of this celebrated author's poems"

On the divisional title to 'She stoops to conquer' the date of the first printing is given as 1772 instead of 1773.

Uncontrolled note

Pp.12 and 253 misnumbered 11 and 221. Not in Roscoe