Hardcover
1891 · London
by GOLDSMITH, Oliver
London: J.M. Dent and Co, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition. Two volume set. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, top edges gilt. Edited by Austin Dobson with etchings by Herbert Railton. Edward Robins decorative bookplate on front pastedowns, "Edward Robins Jr." inked on blank preliminary page of volume one only, lightly rubbed, a very good set. Letters published originally In 1760 in the Public Ledger supposedly written by a Chinese traveller with this fictional outsider's perspective to comment ironically on British society and manners. This is one of four hundred copies printed for England. Part of "The Temple Library" series. (Inventory #: 408572)