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170 Goldsmith (Oliver) Complete Works. Edited by Peter
Cunningham. With numerous photogravure illustrations on Japan
vellum, the frontispieces signed by the artist. Unexpurgated
Edition. 12 vols. original red buckram, paper labels, gilt
tops, uncut. London and New York, 1900. =$50.00=
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171 Goldsmith (Oliver) Works. Edited by Peter Cunningham. 4
vols. 8vo. New 3/4 morocco extra, Imperial silk sides, gilt
tops and backs. New York: Harper & Bros., 1881. =$16.00=
A very neat set.
172 Goldsmith (Oliver). Miscellaneous Works. With stipple
portrait and quaint illustrations throughout the text. 2 vols.
12mo. New polished 3/4 dark blue calf, full gilt tooled backs,
with brown levant labels, gilt tops, uncut. London, n. d.
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A neat little set of Goldsmith's miscellaneous writings.
173 Greek and Latin Authors. Works of one hundred and ninety
Greek and Latin authors, with few exceptions complete and
unabridged. Translated by one hundred and fourteen great
English authors. Special introductions by fifty-two eminent
classical scholars. The only collection containing literary
translations of the great works of all the classic authors.
Every branch of literature is represented--poetry, philosophy,
history, science, biography, oratory, satire, drama, romance,
medicine, law, religion, mythology, essays and letters. It
contains literature never before translated into English.
It contains a critical biography of every Greek and Roman
author, thus forming a complete history of classic literature.
It contains extensive indexes of proper names (marked for
pronunciation) and subjects, making the work the best form of
a classical dictionary or hand-book of information concerning
the great Greeks and Romans and their beliefs and customs.
Exquisitely illustrated throughout the text, some finely
colored by hand. 15 vols. 8vo. New full morocco extra, gilt
tops and backs, uncut. New York.