Author: GOLDSMITH (Oliver):
Title: Essays and Criticisms, By Dr. Goldsmith; With An Account of the Author.
Description: London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard..., 1798. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 3 volumes. 12mo, 172 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], vi [vii - viii Contents], 232; xxx [xxxi xxxii Contents], 238; [vi], 276, including half-title in volumes 2 and 3, engraved portrait (by T. Holloway after Sir Joshua Reynolds) as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine; lacks all labels, but a very good set with the later autograph of "John Gladstone/ Liverpool" on the title-pages of volumes 1 and 2. Volume 1 is a republication of Essays by Mr. Goldsmith first published in 1765; the second and third volumes, which were edited by Thomas Wright, with the assistance of Isaac Reed, constitute a new collection. Many of the essays here ascribed to Goldsmith are almost certainly not by him. However, the notice in The Critical Review for 1798 claimed "The first volume of these Essays was published by Goldsmith himself; the other are now first collected. The internal evidence is sufficient to prove their authenticity, and the account given in the preface satisfactorily establishes that point."

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