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The citizen of the world, or, Letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East. Volume the first [-second].

Accession number
PML 17609-10
Creator
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Published
London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow ..., 1762.
Notes
First collected edition.
Imprint continues: "J. Leake and W. Frederick, at Bath; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and A.M. Stuart and Co. at Reading."
Printed by William Strahan (Friedman, p. xi).
Title pages apparently are cancels (as occurs in some other copies).
Pagination: v. 1: vi [i.e., vii], [1], 286 p.; v. 2: [2], 238, [16] p. Final blank leaf missing in each volume.
Matches all conditions in Scott for first edition, but note that "page 109" in Scott (eight lines from bottom of his p. 72) should be corrected to "page 110."
Description
2 v. ; 19 cm (12mo)
Provenance
William Paston ("WP" signed on titles); Clement Paston (altered in manuscript on family bookplate); T. Simmons (bookseller's ticket from 23 Bath Street, Leamington).
Binding
Uncut, in publisher's pale blue boards, paper spine.
Classification
Department