Oliver Goldsmith

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1874. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 22 characteristic Harper's engravings, including two examples of Goldsmith's writing and signature, and several portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLVIII, No. 287, April, 1874. Illustrations include the statue of Goldsmith by J. H. Foley, Hogarth's portrait of Goldsmith, the Sizar and the Minstrel, Night Wanderings, Goldsmith and his Brother, Adventure with Fiddleback, Voltaire's Defense of England, In Green Arbor Court, Visit of Thomas Percy, Tom Davies' Bookstore, Boswell's Visit to the Club, Boswell, Johnson, and Goldsmith after Dinner at the Mitre, Sir Joshua Reynolds' visit to Goldsmith, Johnson Reading the Vicar of Wakefield, Hogarth Painting a Portrait of Goldsmith's Hostess Mrs. Fleming, Goldsmith's monument at Westminster Abbey, and portraits of Goldsmith after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson after Reynolds, 1778, Topham Beauclerk, and Bennet Langton. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..