Description

• Miniature Edition [Jones & Company, London, 1831]; 9 x 5.5cm; blank leaf, 8 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1825], viii, 252 + 4 Publisher’s ad pages, blank leaf; red silk-woven boards, black paper on spine with gold titling, silk worn through along edges, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
• Part of the Jones’ Diamond Classics series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats.
• Best known for this novel, Oliver Goldsmith was also an eminent poet