The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith Embellished with Engravings from The Designs of Richard Westall, R.A. The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems…

The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith Embellished with Engravings from The Designs of Richard Westall, R.A. The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems…

Author: Goldsmith, Oliver (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774)

16mo.(3.75" x 6.25") 1816. Goldsmith, Oliver. London. Printed for John Sharpe. 1754. Goldsmith, Oliver. Paris. Chez Duchesne. Full brown speckled calf. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author to fancy gilt rule bordered green leather to the second compartment, all other compartments with gilt rule borders and a centered circular gilt device, fancy gilt rule to hed and foot of spine. Minor edgewear, corners rubbed, evident repairs to hinges, still tender, booksellers penciled notes neatly to front pastedown and first free endpaper. All edges lightly reddened. Bookplate of Ellen Annette Boult (Great-Granddaughter of Robert Southey) to first free endpaper. Illustrated with an engraved half-title, an engraved title-page and end-page for The Traveller, and The Deserted Village, and engraved title-page for The Hermit, 6 fine engravings total, all dated 1816. Minor, light spotting to the plates and endpapers.

From Wiki: From Wiki: Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best known for his works such as The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771). He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). Goldsmith was an Anglican, and famously said "as I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest". Thomas Hurst wrote that Goldsmith "recognised with joy the existence and perfections of a Deity. For the Christian revelation also, he was always understood to have a profound respect – knowing that it was the source of our best hopes and noblest expectations." A monument to him survives in the centre of Ballymahon, also in Westminster Abbey with an epitaph written by Samuel Johnson. "Oliver Goldsmith: A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched nothing that he did not adorn. Of all the passions, whether smiles were to move or tears, a powerful yet gentle master. In genius, vivid, versatile, sublime. In style, clear, elevated, elegant." Epitaph written by Dr. Johnson, translated from the original Latin.

Richard Westall RA (2 January 1765 – 4 December 1836) was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary events, best known for his portraits of Byron. He was also Queen Victoria's drawing master.