A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700, Vol. 1 / Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe

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Collation: Title, one leaf (verso blank). Dedication to Dr. Johnson, Prologue, Epilogue, and Dramatis Personæ, two leaves. Text, B1-P1 in fours. Epilogue, P2 (verso blank). Pages 1-106, last leaf unnumbered.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver.—Retaliation: a poem. By Doctor Goldsmith. including epitaphs on the most Diſtinguiſhed Wits of this Metropolis. [vignette portrait of Goldsmith] London: Printed for G. Kearsly, . . . M. DCC. LXXIV. 4to, red levant morocco, gilt back, side borders, gilt edges, by Rivière.

First edition: published posthumously.

In the first collected edition of the "Poems and Plays," 1777, the following note appears on the verso of the half-title of this poem:

"Dr. Goldsmith and ſome of his friends occaſionally dined at the St. James's coffee-houſe.—One day it was propoſed to write epitaphs on him. His country, dialect, and perſon, furniſhed ſubjects of witticiſm. He was called on for Retaliation, and at their next meeting, produced the following poem."

Collation: Half-title, A1 (verso blank). Title with medallion portrait, A2 (verso blank). "To M^r. Kearsly, Book-seller, in Fleet-Street," B1-B2 (verso blank). Pages i-iii. Text, C1-E2 in twos. Pages 1-16.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver.—A Survey of Experimental Philosophy, Conſidered in its present state of improvement. Illustrated with cuts. . . . By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. London: Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery . . . MDCCLXXVI. 8vo, two volumes, red levant morocco, Janseniste, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.

First edition: with twenty-four plates engraved by Proud.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver.—The Haunch of Venison, a poetical epistle to Lord Clare. By the late Dr. Goldsmith. With a Head of the Author, Drawn by Henry Bunbury, Eſq; and Etched by Bretherton. London: Printed for J. Ridley, . . . and G. Kearsly, . . . MDCCLXXVI. 4to, green levant morocco, gilt and mosaic back, side panels in ribbon and foliage designs of blue, brown, citron, and ivory mosaic, doubled with green morocco, gilt and mosaic borders, vellum guards, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.

First edition: with half-title and etched portrait.