Goldsmith, Oliver

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

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Description

Dr. Goldsmith's celebrated elegy on that glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize. London: J. Harris, 1808
Paper

16mo (130 x 103mm.), 12 hand coloured illustrations with accompanying verse, original wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover titled "Harris's Cabinet", collector's red morocco folding box, very lightly soiled with some offsetting to verso of wrappers

Provenance

Estelle Doheny copy, her sale, Christie's New York, 21 February 1989, lot 1973

Literature

see Osborne p.69