The traveller [electronic resource], or, A prospect of society, a poem. Containing: a sketch of the manners, of Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, and Britain. To which is added True beauty, a matrimonial tale; likewise The adventures of Tom Dreadnought, who served as a soldier and also as sailor, in the late war. By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. [i.e., M.D.?] Author of The vicar of Wakefield, &c.
1768
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Title
The traveller [electronic resource], or, A prospect of society, a poem. Containing: a sketch of the manners, of Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, and Britain. To which is added True beauty, a matrimonial tale; likewise The adventures of Tom Dreadnought, who served as a soldier and also as sailor, in the late war. By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. [i.e., M.D.?] Author of The vicar of Wakefield, &c.
Created/published
[Philadelphia] America : Printed [by Robert Bell?] for every purchaser, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
Description
24 p. ; 12mo.
Associated name
Note
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"The Traveller" is dedicated to the author's brother, the Rev. Henry Goldsmith. "True beauty" is included in editions of Goldsmith's works under title: The double transformation. "The adventures of Tom Dreadnought" is Goldsmith's Essay no. 24.
This title was advertised in the Pennsylvania chronicle, July 11-18, 1768, as "lately published and to be sold by R. Bell." - Another edition, with identical imprint, has the word "likewise" in a separate line on the title page, and gathering B follows leaf A6. (That edition was issued as part of: Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The poetical works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague .. London [i.e. Philadelphia?], 1769].) In the present edition, the words "True beauty, a matrimonial tale; likewise the" appear in one line, and gathering B is inserted after leaf A3.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
"The Traveller" is dedicated to the author's brother, the Rev. Henry Goldsmith. "True beauty" is included in editions of Goldsmith's works under title: The double transformation. "The adventures of Tom Dreadnought" is Goldsmith's Essay no. 24.
This title was advertised in the Pennsylvania chronicle, July 11-18, 1768, as "lately published and to be sold by R. Bell." - Another edition, with identical imprint, has the word "likewise" in a separate line on the title page, and gathering B follows leaf A6. (That edition was issued as part of: Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The poetical works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague .. London [i.e. Philadelphia?], 1769].) In the present edition, the words "True beauty, a matrimonial tale; likewise the" appear in one line, and gathering B is inserted after leaf A3.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
ESTC staff note
Signatures: A⁶(A3 + B6).
Cited/described in
Evans, C. American bibliography, 10914
Hildeburn, C.R. Century of printing; the issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784, 2362
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W29874
Hildeburn, C.R. Century of printing; the issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784, 2362
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W29874
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Place of creation/publication
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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