Essays of Oliver Goldsmith.

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1928. Two volumes. 8vo. 277; 188 pp. Each volume with half-title, frontispiece and engraved title. Vellum-backed boards, with matching slip-case; endpapers slightly browned, some off-setting from titles and frontispieces, otherwise a very nice uncut copy from the library of Louise Ward Watkins with her bookplates. Item #12209

Limited edition; one of only 400 copies printed for members of the Bibliophile Society. This collection contains Letters of a citizen of the world; On quack doctors; A reverie at the Boar’s Head tavern in Eastcheap as well as numerous other essays and letters written by Goldsmith. Also included is a biographical sketch written by Henry Howard Harper.

Price: $125.00

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