1775 The Roman History from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding

The third edition of this work, complete in two volumes.

First published in 1769, this is the work of Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer Oliver Goldsmith, best known for the novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield'.

Goldsmith traces Rome’s development from its legendary founding by Romulus, through the Republic and the rise of the Empire, to the eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

ESTC No T146146

With the bookplate of John Thomson to each front pastedown, and the bookplate of Robert J Hayhurst to front free endpaper of volume I. Robert J. Hayhurst inherited and improved a successful group of retail pharmacies, John Hayhurst & Son, based in Nelson, Lancashire. He was a keen collector of naval history and of eighteenth-century literature in contemporary bindings.