Accession number
PML 16201
Published
London [England] : Printed for J[ohn] Wilkie, at the Bible in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M DCC LIX. [1759]
Notes
Editor and contributor: Oliver Goldsmith.
Each issue begins with factotum initial.
First printing of some of this author's poetical works. Contains also some of his essays and translations. First collected ed. or first ed., 2nd issue.
A weekly periodical, wholly conducted and written by Goldsmith, comprising nos. I-VIII, from Sat., Oct. 6 to Sat., Nov. 24, 1759.
Originally planned to be issued in 12 numbers; with no. 8, "The Bee" ceased publication. These 8 numbers the publisher gathered together into a pocket vol. Cf. Scott, Bibl. of Goldsmith, p. 59.
Frequently reprinted. Several of the essays were reprinted by the author in 1765 in his collection of "Essays".
Reprinted and edited by Peter Cunningham, London, 1854 in vol. 4.
Includes first printing of: An elegy on that glory of her sex Mrs. Mary Blaize (first ed., first issue in the original issue of no. IV, Oct. 27, 1759, p. 128), in seven 4-line stanzas.
Signatures: A² (unsigned), B-Q⁸, R⁶; A¹a, t.p., A¹b blank; A²a-A²b, table of contents, B-Q⁸, R⁶, text.
Call no. suffix: Goldsmith.
Each issue begins with factotum initial.
First printing of some of this author's poetical works. Contains also some of his essays and translations. First collected ed. or first ed., 2nd issue.
A weekly periodical, wholly conducted and written by Goldsmith, comprising nos. I-VIII, from Sat., Oct. 6 to Sat., Nov. 24, 1759.
Originally planned to be issued in 12 numbers; with no. 8, "The Bee" ceased publication. These 8 numbers the publisher gathered together into a pocket vol. Cf. Scott, Bibl. of Goldsmith, p. 59.
Frequently reprinted. Several of the essays were reprinted by the author in 1765 in his collection of "Essays".
Reprinted and edited by Peter Cunningham, London, 1854 in vol. 4.
Includes first printing of: An elegy on that glory of her sex Mrs. Mary Blaize (first ed., first issue in the original issue of no. IV, Oct. 27, 1759, p. 128), in seven 4-line stanzas.
Signatures: A² (unsigned), B-Q⁸, R⁶; A¹a, t.p., A¹b blank; A²a-A²b, table of contents, B-Q⁸, R⁶, text.
Call no. suffix: Goldsmith.
Description
2 p.l., 252 p.
Binding
Calf; in brown marbled board case by Lahey.
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