The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Title: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Author: Goldsmith, Oliver

Publication: London: Macmillan and Co., 1904.

Description: The Globe Edition of The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, with a biographical introduction by Professor David Masson, published by Macmillan and Co. and printed by Richard Clay and Sons. Includes "The Vicar of Wakefield," "The Citizen of the World," "The Bee," "An Inquiry Into the Present State of Polite Learning," and other essays, biographies, poems, and plays by Oliver Goldsmith. In publisher's dark green cloth binding, with blind-stamped borders on the upper and lower covers, title and publisher stamped in gilt on the spine, and a portrait of the author and his facsimile signature stamped in gilt on the upper cover; top edge gilt. 7.625 x 5.125 inches; [2], lx, [2], 695, [1] pages, [1] plate.

With a bookplate stating "Property of the Norwood Press Club. Presented by George P. Brett, President of the Macmillan Company, New York, N.Y." Embossed stamp on the title page reading "Norwood Press Club, Norwood, Mass., 1907." The Norwood Press printed textbooks, bibles, catalogs, and pamphlets in Norwood, Massachusetts from 1894 to 1952. The Norwood Press Club was a social and athletic club established in 1907 for employees of the Norwood Press, later opened to residents of the town of Norwood (Norwood Historical Society website). Bumped spine ends and corners and mild soiling on the fore-edge. Some gatherings remain unopened at the fore-edge. A Very Good copy with an interesting provenance and a particularly bright gilt portrait of Goldsmith on the upper cover.