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title: The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith
 
author: Oliver Goldsmith
 
photographer: Frederick Simpson Coburn
 
year: 1908
 
condition: A clean copy in fine/excellent condition. Strong binding and spine. Clean and stainless pages free of any tears or foxing. The gilt along the cover and paper edges is completely intact in that it hasn't suffered from any particular fading. The spine merely has slight wear from natural aging.
 
publisher: Knickerbocker Press, G.P. Putnam's Sons
 
pages: 191
 
dimensions: 8.25 inches x 5.5 inches x 1.25 inches
 
description: Hardcover, dark blue book. Decorated in utterly beautiful gilded text and decor along the spine and front cover. Light brown endpapers featuring subtle fleur de lis design. Gilded paper edges along the top of the pages. 
 
synopsis: Oliver Goldsmith, an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, and poet, is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
 
This poetry collection features Goldsmith's most notable poems, including The Traveller: Or, A Prospect of Society, The Deserted Village, The Clown's Reply, and Elegy On The Death of A Mad Dog.