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The deserted village : a poem / by Oliver Goldsmith ; with an introduction by William Andrews Clark, Jr. ; the frontispiece by William Wilke done in dry-point after a bas-relief by Helen Hall Culver.

Accession number
PML 24101
Creator
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Published
San Francisco : Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr. by John Henry Nash, 1926.
Credit line
Gift of William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1926.
Notes
Facsimile (PML 24101A) is of Clark's copy of the first edition (same as PML 6838).
Uncut copy; actual height is 31.5 cm.
Preliminary 11 p. and final 11 p. are blank except for decorative green horizontal rules used as borders.
Both volumes printed in a limited edition of 200 copies.
Both volumes numbered "54."
Edition with introduction by Clark follows that of Peter Cunningham, 1854 (see p. xxviii).
Description
[18], xli, [1], 24, [12] p. : port. ; 32 cm (fol.) + 1 facsimile ([8], 23, [5] p. ; 23 cm)
Binding
Publisher's half vellum, light green paper boards, gold-tooled green morocco spine label; both volumes with matching bindings, in publisher's slip-case.
Classification
Department