The traveller, or a prospect of society. A poem.
Goldsmith, Oliver,1730?-1774.
London : printed for J. Newbery,
1764.
Anonymous. By Oliver Goldsmith.
This is believed to be the first state of the first edition; Temple Scott and Todd describe it as very rare, Scott considering it a "trial" state.
This issue lacks the half-title and has a 7 line dedication on p.[3], but the text is the same as in other first edition states (Todd).
Williams' description of it as "Issue A" mis-describes the title, but he had not seen it.
Scott, T., Oliver Goldsmith, 1928, p.140
Todd, W., 'Quadruple imposition: an account of Goldsmith's Traveller' in Studies in bibliography. VII, 1955, pp.110-111. Variant 1
Williams, I., Seven XVIIIth century bibliographies, 1968, pp.134-5
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Roscoe,