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The History of England by Dr Goldsmith (1842)
Beschrijving
An Abridgement of the History of England by Dr GoldsmithFrom the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of George the Second
London, Longman Brown and Co., et alies, 1842
New Edition
Period full tree calf boards. Title in god on spine
12mo.
[2], 331, [16] Pages
Frontispiece
GOOD
Spine discolored and upperpart (0,3 cm.) missing
Small label of a bookshop on verso of front board
Name in ink on first free endpaper
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 - 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who 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, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".
In 1770 he published his History of England
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