1889 The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition

Complete in two volumes. The Temple Library. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated complete. A collection of the poetry and plays of Oliver Goldsmith, a prolific Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer of various literature, he is regarded among the most versatile authors of the Georgian era. This collection contains titles including: The Traveller, A Sonnet, Edwin and Angelina, The Good Natur'd Man, and Scene from the Grumbler, amongst others. Edited by Henry Austin Dobson, an English poet and essayist. With etchings by John Timothy Jellicoe, a British illustrator who produced large number of illustrations for newspapers and magazines as well as illustrating books and stories by a wide range of authors, and Herbert Railton, an English artist and leading black and white illustrator of books and magazines.