Search Results: select works of oliver goldsmith comprising by oliver goldsmith

Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Noted. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and pastedown and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and heavy tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible sunning, water marks and rubbing. Moderate bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Heavier sunning to spine and book is forward leaning.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. Hardcover. Good. Octavo blue Prize calf gilt on 5 raised bands spine compartments gilt also gilt dent. Blindtooled rev. (spine bit faded/sl.damage to head of spine/tips rubbed/sl.marked) All edges marbled to match the endpapers xii+434pp Prize label to pastedown from Sir John Deane's Grammar School Witton, Northwich.

London: Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. First thus. Library of English Classics series. 1901. 8vo. Beautifully bound in a dark green half leatherwith raised bands and ornate gilt designs. Green and gilt marbled endpapers. 434 pp. TEG. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. NEAR FINE

Macmillan and Co., 1901. 1st edn. 8vo. Rebound by Bickers in gilt tooled half calf with marbled endpapers (small stain at bottom edge of upper board - otherwise VG). Pp. xii + 434 (previous owner's 1910 gilft inscription on front prelim).

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. Full Leather. Very Good. Octavo. Pp. xii, 434. Bound in contemporary full maroon calf, with a large central gilt crest of Rugby School with the motto "Orando Laborando" (by prayer and work), bordered by double gilt fillets framing a wavy blind roll and blind-stamped corner pieces, gilt-rolled edges. Spine elaborately gilt in compartments between raised bands, morocco lettering piece, gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Rugby presentation bookplate on pastedown, but overall a fine, well-preserved copy, with the spine gilt still bright and crisp. With a bibliographical introduction by Alfred W. Pollard, the present collection contains, besides "The Vicar of Wakefield", five plays, including "She Stoops to Conquer", and all of Goldsmith's miscellaneous poems.

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. Fine Binding. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. This selection of works by Oliver Goldsmith includes his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, two plays, and nearly thirty other poems A selection of works by Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, and poet Oliver Goldsmith, with a biographical introduction by Alfred Pollard. Described by contemporaries as a congenial but disorganised man, Oliver Goldsmith is best known for his late eighteenth century novel The Vicar of Wakefield, and his two plays, The Good Natur'd Man, and She Stoops to Conquer. All three of these works can be found in the present volume, alongside The Deserted Village, and several other miscellaneous poems. This copy belonged to British peer, architect, and town planner Lionel Brett. The bookplate of the fourth Viscount of Esher can be found to the front pastedown, with the Esher motto 'Vicimus'. Brett served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1966 to 1967. Small stamp from… Read More