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Forster, John. The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. Vol I. Bradbury and Evans,, 1854.
Price: US$42.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1854. Bradbury and Evans, Hardback. ACCEPTABLE First edition. Blue boards. Boards marked. Spine sunned and damaged. Ex Libris. Extremities worn. 9x6.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Forster, John. The Life and Times of Oliver goldsmith- Two Volumes. Bradbury and Evans, 1854.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volume set. Stated second edition. In smooth brown leather with gilt tooling and designs. Raised bands on spine. One-inch tear to top of volume I, whcih has been repaired. Else light wear to corners and spine ends.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Six Volume Set bound by Zaehnsdorf in olive morocco and marbled boards, six elaborately-tooled spine compartments set off by 5 raised hubs, no markings, the 4-Volume Cunningham-edited set as published by John Murray with the addiitonal 2-Volume Life and Times by John Forster, Second Edition, as published by Bradbury & Evans, each volume of the works includes the additional engraved title pages (often lacking), chipped corner to half-title & engraved title page of Vol 1, bindings tight hinges sound, lightly scuffed slightly chipped wear to spine edges/extremities, else clean tight attractive set; 6 8vos: (xii); 468 + 487 + 447 + 450pp cumulatively indexed and (xliv) 454 + (xii) 548pp indexed. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this set (additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for overseas shipment)
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First four volumes with half-title and second engraved title; Volume IV with engraved frontispiece. Uniformly bound in full polished calf by M.M. Holloway, gilt rules and fleurons, spines elaborately gilt in compartments. Volume IV of Cunningham and Volume I of Forster neatly re-backed, preserving the original back-strips. From the library of Louis E. Goodman, with his bookplate in each volume as well as the small label of Paul Elder & Co. to rear end-papers. First edition of the Works edited by Cunningham; second edition of The Life (the first was entitled The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith), with additional notes and corrections. "This edition of Goldsmith's Works not only contains more pieces than any other, but is also the first in which his works appear together exactly as their author left them" (preface). While Goldsmith always carefully corrected his work, it is exceedingly rare to find an edition which actually contains the final versions as corrected by him. The present edition contains not only famous poetical works and novels such as The Deserted Village and The Vicar of Wakefield, but also much of his unpublished and un-credited work. Cunningham (1816-69), a prolific author and critic, edited numerous other works, including Johnson's Lives of the Poets and Murray's Library of British Classics. Considered at the time to be the definitive biography of Goldsmith, the author was notorious for the care and dedication that he poured into it. Forster (1812-76), a historian and biographer wrote and re-wrote this biography twelve times before having it published. Dickens, to whom this work is dedicated, said of him"nobody could bribe Forster unless it was with a new fact for his life of Goldsmith" (DNB, VII, p. 457). Goldsmith (1728-74) was an Irish-born poet, novelist and playwright. He barely earned his B.A. in medicine, and never completed his medical studies at Edinburgh University, opting instead to travel around Europe. He later returned to London impoverished, practicing medicine for a time; he eventually abandoned it altogether to devote himself to writing. He spent most of his life in poverty, due to a gambling habit, leaving a debt of over £2000 after his death. FIRST EDITION OF WORKS; SECOND EDITION OF LIFE.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
John Forster. The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1854.
Price: US$1020.20 + shipping
Description: A sumptuous MacLehose-bound second edition of John Forster's immense biography of the important author, Oliver Goldsmith. The second edition of this popular, immense work by John Forster, originally published in 1848. Complete in two volumes.In an exquisite fine binding by MacLehose.An admirable work by Forster, exploring in depth the whole life and times of Oliver Goldsmith, important author of The Vicar of Wakefieldamong others.These volumes cover his whole life, opening with his birth and closing with events after his death, mostly regarding his family, until 1801.Dedicated to Charles Dickens.With a preface, additional notes and corrections to both volumes, and an introduction to volume one. Handsomely bound by Glasgow-based binders MacLehose in a sumptuous green calf binding with marbled boards and endpapers, five raised bands, and gilt to the edges and spine. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear and a minor rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities; the title label of volume two has suffered a minimal loss. With a minor scuffing to leather of the rear joint of volume one. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
John Forster. Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. Bradbury and Evans, 1854.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY BAYNTUN IN FULL MOROCCO WITH COVERS GILT TOOLED IN AN INTERLOCKING PATTERN, SPINES TOOLED IN GILT IN COMPARTMENTS. BOARD EDGES GILT, WITH GILT RULED TURN-INS. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS, BRIGHT GILT END PAGES, NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS AND LITTLE TO NO FOXING. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH THE INSERTION OF 136 ILLUSTRATIONS, 42 IN COLOR. BOOKS MEASURE 8.75"x6". SECOND EDITION, 164 YEARS OLD. A STUNNING SET IN REMARKABLE CONDITION!
Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1854.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Peter Cunningham. 6 volumes. Title page vignettes. 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco; gilt-decorated spines with raised bands, t.e.g. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. Very Good. 4 volumes: Works, 2 volumes: Life, by John Forster.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.