Goldsmith, Oliver. The History of England, from The Earliest Times to the Death of George II: The third edition, corrected. Vol III. [apart]. London: T. Becket . 1779, 1779.

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Description: Hardback, leather with original spine shields, marbled end papers, 454 pp., 8° (13 x 21 cm), gilded edges worn, interior in very good condition. Book Language/s: English

Seller: Antikvariat Valentinska, Praha, Czech Republic

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II (complete in 4 volumes). Printed for T. Becket, T. Cadell, and T. Evans, Strand; G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster Row; F. Newbery, Ludgate-Street; and J. Murray, Fleet-Street, London, 1779.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo (22cm). Contemporary full tree calf, gilt tooled borders to covers, gilt dentelles, gilt titles to spine on red morocco labels with gilt tooled compartments. Marbled endpapers. With copper engraved vignette portraits throughout. Vol. I: viii, 384 + [23], Index. Vol. II: 420 + [28] Index. Vol. III: pp. 454 + [22] Index. Vol. IV: pp. 412, + [23] index. Previous owners' names, initials, to first blank and half title, Vol I. A pretty binding, now somewhat tired, joints rubbed, occasional scuff marks, minor loss to head of spines of vols I, III, and IV. Still a sound set, pages tight and free of marks.

Seller: tinyBook, Bath, United Kingdom

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The History of England, From The Earliest Times to the Death of George II (complete in 4 vols.). Published by T. Becket, T. Cadwell, and T. Evans, Stran; G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, Pater-noster Row, F. Newbery; Ludgate-street, and J. Murray; Fleet-street, London, 1779.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: THIRD ENLARGED EDITION. Octavos. Vol.1: (viii) 384pp. (+ 23 pages of index). Vol.2: 420pp. (+ 28 pages of index). Vol.3: 454pp. (+ 22 pages of index). Vol.4: 412pp. (+ 23 pages of index). Full Contemporary brown calf boards with raised bands and red and black morocco labels in the compartment spines. This is Goldsmith's comprehensive retelling of the history of England starting from the Celtic pre-Roman period through 1760. Using earlier sources such as "Rapin, Carte, Smollett and Hume", the author's stated aim is to create a work find a balance between the overly literary and the more dry "stiffness of an index". Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). (Wikipedia).A clean very good set which displays no previous signs of ownership such as bookplates or inscriptions.

Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The History of England, From The Earliest Times to the Death of George II (complete in 4 vols.). T. Becket, T. Cadwell, and T. Evans, Stran; G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, Pater-noster Row, F. Newbery; Ludgate-street, and J. Murray; Fleet-street, London, 1779.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavos. Vol.1: (viii) 384pp. (+ 23 pages of index). Vol.2: 420pp. (+ 28 pages of index). Vol.3: 454pp. (+ 22 pages of index). Vol.4: 412pp. (+ 23 pages of index). Period light brown speckled leather boards with gilt ruling along the edges of the cover and on the spines. Gilt lettering over brown labels on the spine. Raised bands. Speckled edges. Green cloth ribbon markers. The work is Goldsmith's comprehensive retelling of the history of England starting from the Celtic pre-Roman period through 1760. Using earlier sources such as "Rapin, Carte, Smollett and Hume", the author's stated aim is to create a work find a balance between the overly literary and the more dry "stiffness of an index". Each volumes has an extensive index of names and terms at the back. Bindings with some light scratches, smudges, small stains and/or abrasions to the covers. Hinges of some spines lightly worn with some cracking. Some rubbing to extremities and along the spines. Labels on the spines of volumes 1, 2 and 4 detached but present (in a plastic sleeve, laid in at the interior front cover of vol.1). Spines sunned. Interiors with some light age toning and/or damp staining to the edges of the interior covers and endpapers. Minor sporadic foxing and/or smudges to a few pages of some volumes. Starting at the gutters of the interior covers. Vol.3 with the pagination on the last leaf (p.253-254) cut out, leaving a small hole in the upper corner. Signature of John Horwood Hinton, the previous owner, in ink at the front free endapapers. Book blocks tight overall. Bindings in good- to good+, interiors in good+ to very good condition overall.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.