Search results for: 'GOLDSMITH, Oliver'
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Beauties of English Poesy.London : 1767
First edition, complete with the half-titles and contents leaves in both volumes. This is a particularly nice copy, in a handsome unrestored contemporary binding, of this scarce anthology of English poetry selected by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), published the year after The Vicar of Wakefield.
The selection includes such near-contemporary... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 143778
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works.London : 1823
An appealingly bound set of Goldsmith's writings. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 107427
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1903
Deluxe edition, number 56 of 250 copies signed by the publisher, this copy in a striking and unusual arts and crafts binding, perhaps the work of the Guild of Women Binders, though unmarked, exhibiting their adventurous style. Goldsmith's masterpiece was first published in 1766. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139010
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Deserted Village, A Poem.London : 1770
The third edition of Goldsmith's Deserted Village, one of the great poems of the 18th century, here bound in an attractive contemporary binding alongside six other poems, including examples of the biting poetic satires of Charles Churchill and William Coombes.
Bound third, with:
i) CHURCHILL, Charles. The Ghost. London: printed for the... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 116410
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Dr. Goldsmith's Celebrated Elegy on that Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize.London : 1808
First juvenile and first separate edition of Goldsmith's Elegy on Mary Blaize, in the original paper wrappers in very nice condition; the Estelle Doheny copy, with her book label.
Goldsmith's poem was first printed in The Bee in 1759, and is composed of seven quatrains, each with the final line a humorous twist on the preceding three lines. "Half... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 144267
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.Philadelphia : [1930?]
First US trade edition, first printing; inscribed neatly on the title page verso: "December 1930" - presumably the date of publication (which is not given by either bibliography). Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 113258
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ESSEX HOUSE PRESS: GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Deserted Village.Campden, Gloucestershire : 1904
First Essex House Press edition, number 120 of 150 copies only, printed on vellum and hand illuminated. Goldsmith's poem, first published in 1770, is a pastoral elegy and political polemic which depicts an idealised, and supposedly lost, rural lifestyle. It is presented here as the twelfth work in the Essex House Press Great Poems Series. The Essex... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 137543
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Deluxe edition, number 490 of 575 copies for England signed by Arthur Rackham. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 115989
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
First trade edition, first impression, in the publisher's striking deluxe binding of "Persian morocco". Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 113243
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.Philadelphia : 1929
First U.S. Rackham Edition. Learn More£180.00Stock Code: 15069
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THOMSON, Hugh (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer.London : [1912]
Signed limited edition, number 149 of 350 copies signed by the illustrator. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 130161
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Signed limited edition, one of 575 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 20927
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
First Rackham edition. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 116069
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929.
First Rackham edition. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 101119
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Deluxe edition, number 7 of 575 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 113244
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.[1929]
First American Trade Edition, the same as the English trade edition, except that the publisher's name on the title page and on the spine is changed. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 24005
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JOHNSON, Samuel. An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers.London : 1744
First edition of Johnson's celebrated biography of his friend Richard Savage, the flamboyant poet, playwright, and blackmailer, here bound with the first edition of Oliver Goldsmith's life of Beau Nash, another of the most celebrated biographies of the 18th century.
Johnson's Life of Savage has the last page in the state with a single-line erratum.... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 141773
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FORSTER, John. The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith.London : 1877
Sixth edition. A handsomely bound copy. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 116511
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Complete deluxe limited editions set.1905–51
IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, 1905
Quarto. Original vellum, titles to spine and front board gilt, pictorial image blocked in gilt to front cover, brown endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, cream ribbon ties. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on brown... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 144251
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Original watercolour from The Vicar of Wakefield. "The Dog it was that Died"[c.1929]
A fine drawing of an Islington gentlemen looking down on a dead dog. Signed by Arthur Rackham to the lower right. Originally used as a line drawing to illustrate The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith page 111. Coloured and background drawn in by Rackham at a later date. Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 25997
