Male : Poet, dramatist and novelist. Disfigured aged 8 by smallpox. Travelled on the Continent (1753-6) before settling in London. Joined the circle of Dr Johnson. Lost money at the gaming tables. Died after taking a large dose of James's Powders.

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Pallas, nr Ballymahon, Co Longford

Date of Birth : 1728 Date of Death : 1774 Age : 46

Education : Trinity College, Dublin & Edinburgh University (Medicine)

1758-1760
(Trans) J Marteilhe : The Memoirs of a Protestant (1758) - 2 vols
An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe (1759 Dodsley) (1774)
The Bee (1759, Oct-Nov) - 1 vol (1914 Oxford)

1761-1765
The Mystery Revealed (1762)
(Trans) Plutarch's Lives (1762) - 4 vols
The Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London
to His Friends in the East (1762 for J Newbery, London) - 2 vols. Anon
[First published in the Public Ledger in 1760]
The Life of Richard Nash of Bath (1762 John Newbery) (1914 Oxford)
A History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son
(1764 Newbery) - Anon. 2 vols
(1772 Carnan & Newbery, London) - 2 vols
An History of the Martyrs and Primitive Fathers of the Church (1764)
The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society : A Poem (1765 John Newbery)
[This was the first of his works that he publicly owned, all previous works being Anon]
Essays (1765 for W Griffin, London) (1766. 2nd Ed)

1766-1770
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766 Salisbury : Duodecimo) - 2 vols
(1766 for F Newbery, London) - 2 vols
[It was said that Goldsmith sold this to Newbery for £60] (1901 - 1 vol)
(Trans) M Formey : A Concise History of Philosophy and Philosophers (1766)
Poems for Young Ladies in Three Parts : Devotional, Moral & Entertaining (1767)
(Ed) The Beauties of English Poesy (1767 for Wm Griffin, London) - 2 vols
The Good Natur'd Man : A Comedy (1768 Griffin)
The Present State of the British Empire in Europe, America, Africa and Asia (1768)
The Roman History from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction
of the Western Empire
(1769 for Baker, Leigh, Davies & Davis, London) - 2 vols
(1781 C Bathurst, London. 4th Ed) - 2 vols
The Deserted Village : A Poem (1770 for W Griffin, London)
Offered in 1999 for £600
The Traveller : A Poem (1770 for Carnan & Newbery, London)
The Life of Thomas Parnell (1770)
The Life of Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke (1770)

1771-1773
The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II (1771) - 4 vols
Threnodia Augustalis, Sracred to the Memory of the Princess Dowager of Wales
(1772) - music by Mattia Vento
She Stoops to Conquer, or the Mistakes of a Night : A Comedy (1773 F Newbery)

1774-1775
The Retaliation (1774)
The Citizen of the World (1774 Carnan & Newbery, London. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols. Anon
The Grecian History from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great
(1774) - 2 vols (1774 James Williams, Dublin)
An History of the Earth & Animated Nature (1774 John Newbery) - 8 vols
(1779 for J Nourse. 2nd Ed) - 8 vols
(1790 for A Millar, W Law & R Cater. 3rd Ed) - 8 vols
(1805 Wingrave, London. New Ed) - 6 vols
(1822 W Baynes, London. New Ed) - 4 vols
(1850 Fullarton) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £225
(1862 Blackie) - 2 vols
(1870 Blackie) - 2 vols
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The Miscellaneous Works (1775 for W Griffin)
(Trans) The Comic Romance of Scarron (1775) - 2 vols

1776-1800
The Haunch of Venison : A Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare (1776 for G Kearsly & J Ridley, London)
A Survey of Experimental Philosophy : Considered in its Present State of Improvement
(1776) - 2 vols
The Miscellaneous Works (1782 for W Osborne & T Griffin, London)
Poems for Young Ladies, in 3 Parts (1785 E Johnson, London)
Miscellaneous Works (1791 Edinburgh) - 2 vols
Poetical & Dramatic Works (1791 Goldney for Rivington, London. New Ed) - 2 vols
The Citizen of the World (1792 Vernor, London) - 2 vols
The Miscellaneous Works (1792 R Morison Jnr, Perth & Guthrie, Edinburgh) - 7 vols
The Roman History from the Foundation of the City of Rome
(1793 for Leigh & Sotheby, London. New Ed) - 2 vols
The Poetical Works .. with Life of the Author (1794 D Walker, Hereford)
- woodcuts by Thomas Bewick
The Vicar of Wakefield (1798 David Walker, Hereford) - woodcuts by Thomas Bewick
The Poems (1800 T Bensley, London. New Ed)
The Bee : A select Collection of Essays (c1800 W Lane, London. 2nd Ed)
The Citizen of the World (1800 Wm Otridge, London) - 2 vols

1801-1810
The Miscellaneous Works (1801 for J Johnson, London) - 4 vols
The Poetical Works (1804 H D Symonds, London. New Ed) - engravings by Austin
The Poetical Works (1804 Albion Press, James Cundee for Thos Hurst)
Poems (1804 Bulmer, Shakespeare Printing Office, London) - 2nd Ed. with Thomas Parnell
Elegy on That Glory of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize (1808 John Harris)
The Poetical Works .. with Life of the Author (1808 D Walker, Gloucester) - Thomas Bewick
The Deserted Village : A Poem (1808 Bennington, Vt)
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (1810 T Hodgson)

1811-1820
The Poetical Works .. (1811 London)
Remarks Attempting to Ascertain, Chiefly from Observation (1811 Suttaby, Evance & Co, London)
An Abridgement of the History of England (1811 Cottom & Stewart, VA)
The Miscellaneous Works (1816 R Chapman, Glasgow) - 4 vols
Panorama of Nature (1817 R Edwards, london)
The Vicar of Wakefield (1817 Ackermann, London) - Thomas Rowlandson
Offered in 1995 for £465
The Poems and Plays (1818 for Samuel Archer, Belfast)
Selections with a Sketch of His Life, to which are added the whole of his Poems
(1820 for G Cowie, London)

1821-1839
The Miscellaneous Works (1821 London. New Ed) - 4 vols
The History of Rome Abridged for Use of Schools (1822 Rivington, London) - New & Correct Edition
The Vicar of Wakefield (1823 Ackermann) - Thomas Rowlandson
The History of Greece Abridged for the Use of Schools (1823 Henry Mozley, Derby)
- New & Correct Edition
The Miscellaneous Works (1825 Galigani, Paris. New Ed) - 4 vols. edited by Washington Irving
The Traveller, the Deserted Village : Poems (1826 Chiswick Press for J Sharpe) - Richard Westall
The Vicar of Wakefield (1832 James Cochrane) - Cruikshank
The History of Rome (1835 Sandbornton)

1840-1850
The Vicar of Wakefield (1843 John Van Voorst) - William Mulready
The Poetical Works (1845 Longman)
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1845 Joseph Cundall 5/-) - John Leighton
Miscellaneous Writings (1850 New York) - 4 vols. Edited by John Prior

1851-1860
The Poetical Works (1851 Cundall & Addey) - John Absolon, Birket Foster,
James Godwin & Harrison Weir
The Poetical Works (1853 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets)
The Works (1854 John Murray) - 4 vols. Edited by Peter Cunningham
The Vicar of Wakefield (1855 Joseph Cundall for Sampson Low) - George Thomas
The Deserted Village (1855 for Joseph Cundall by Sampson Low) - The Etching Club
The Traveller (1858 David Bogue) - Birket Foster
The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith (1859 Routledge) - Birket Foster & A N Humphreys
(1860 Routledge. 2nd Ed)

1861-1900
The Deserted Village (1861 Sampson Low) - Members of the Etching Club
Dalziel's Illustrated Goldsmith.. and a Sketch of His Life (1865 Ward & Lock) - Pinwell
The Mad Dog (Sung by Master Bill Primrose) (c1879 Routledge) - Randolph Caldecott
Works (ed J W M Gibbs) (1884-6) - 5 vols
The Vicar of Wakefield (1886 Nimmo, London) - V A Poirson
The Deserted Village (1888 Phila)
The Deserted Village (c1888 Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London)
- Charles Gregory, Frederick Hines & E Wilson
The Vicar of Wakefield (1892 Macmillan) - Hugh Thomson

1901-1920
The Deserted Village (1902 Harper, London) - Edwin Abbey
The Vicar of Wakefield (1903 A & C Black) - John Massey Wright
The Deserted Village (1904 Campden, Gloucs) - 150 numbered. frontis by C R Ashbee
Offered in 1995 for £300
The Vicar of Wakefield (1904 Caradoc Press) - 14 on vellum
The Vicar of Wakefield (1904 Dent) - C E Brock
Poetical Works (ed Austin Dobson) (1906 Oxford)
Poems and Plays (ed A Dobson) (1910)
She Stoops to Conquer (1912 Hodder & Stoughton) - 350 signed by Hugh Thomson
Signed edition offered for £470 in 1998
The Vicar of Wakefield (1914 Constable) - Edmund J Sullivan. 500 signed

1921-1930
New Essays (ed Ronald S Crane) (1927 Chicago)
The Deserted Village : The English Replicas (this made from the British Museum copy of 1st Ed)
(1927 Payson & Clarke, NY) - 100
The Collected Letters (ed Katharine C Balderston) (1928 CUP)
The Vicar of Wakefield (1929 Harrap) - Arthur Rackham. 775 signed
Unsigned edition offered for £275 in 1998
The Vicar of Wakefield (1929 McKay, Phila) - Arthur Rackham. 575 signed
Offered in 1999 for £450
The Traveller and the Deserted Village (1929 The Swan Press, Chelsea) - 100

1931 onwards
The Deserted Village (1933 Birmingham School of Printing)
The Vicar of Wakefield (1939 Heritage Press) - John Austen
Selected Works (ed Richard Garnett) (1950)
She Stoops of Conquer (nd. H & S) - Hugh Thomson
She Stoops to Conquer (1964 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by T M Cleland
Collected Works (1966) - 5 vols. Edited by Arthur Friedman
Poems and Plays (1975) - Edited by Tom Davis

READING
James Boswell : In His The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) - 2 vols
James Prior : The Life of Oliver Goldsmith (1837 London) - 2 vols
John Forster : The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith (1848 London)
Austin Dobson : Life of Oliver Goldsmith (1888 Walter Scott)
Robert Malcolm : The Life of Oliver Goldsmith (c1890 PP, London) - 50
Katharine C Balderstone : A Census of the Manuscripts of Goldsmith (1926 Brick Row, NY)
Temple Scott : Oliver Goldsmith - Bibliographically and Biographically Considered
(1928 Bowling Green Press, NY) - 1000
W D Paden & Clyde K Hyder : A Concordance of the Poems (1940 Lawrence, Kansas)
Ralph M Oliver : Oliver Goldsmith (1957 Lawrence, Kansas) - biography
Robert Hopkins : The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith (1969 John Hopkins UP)
A Lytton Sells : Oliver Goldsmith - His Life and Works (1974 Allen & Unwin)
(1974 Barnes & Noble, NY)
John Ginger : The Notable Man (1977 Hamish Hamilton)