Illustrations of the Literary History of the
Eighteenth
Century.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
Fitz-
gerald's edition, 1888. ]
The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr
Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson. 1793.
No Abolition of Slavery; or the Universal Empire of Love: a Poem. 1791.
[Anon. ]
Songs in the Jnsticiary Opera, Composed fifty years ago, By C-M-
and B-, I. C. C. Auchinleck, 1816.
[‘Those that are here preserved are given from memory. Advertise-
ment. ]
Privately printed for Sir Alexander Boswell; included in Maidment's
Court of Session Garland, 1839 etc.
Letters of James Boswell, addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple. Now first
published from the original MSS. With an introduction and notes [by
Francis, Philip). 1857.
with an introduction by Seccombe, T. 1908.
Boswelliana. The Commonplace Book of James Boswell. With a memoir
and annotations by the Rev. Charles Rogers . . . and introductory remarks
by . . . Lord Houghton. Printed for the Grampian Club. 1874.
[A selection limited to 'anecdotes personal to the writer' had been
contributed by Milnes, R. M. , afterwards Lord Houghton, to the Mis-
cellanies of the Philobiblon Society, vol. 11, 1855-6. ]
Wrongly attributed to Boswell
The Speeches, Arguments, and Determinations of The Lords of Council and
Session in Scotland, upon [the Douglas Cause). With an Introductory
Preface. By a Barrister at Law. Almon. 1767.
[Attributed to Boswell in Halkett and Laing. ]
A Letter to Robert Macqueen Lord Braxfield, on his promotion to be one of
the Judges of the High Court of Justiciary. Edinburgh, 1780.
[Attributed to Boswell in the Bodleian Catalogue. ]
B. Contributions to Periodicals
The Scots Magazine.
Verses on the equestrian statue of King Charles II in the Parliament close,
being painted white. September 1767.
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Prologue at the opening of the Theatre-Royal in Edinburgh. November
1767.
Memorial in behalf of the Corsicans. December 1768.
[The numbers for June, July, August 1768 contain correspondence
between the Hon. Miss Primerose and the author of the Essence of the
Douglas Cause reprinted from the Edinburgh Courant. ]
The London Magazine.
Memorial in Behalf of the Corsicans. December 1768.
A Letter from James Boswell, Esq. , on Shakespeare's Jubilee at Stratford-
upon-Avon: An Account of the Armed Corsican Chief at the Masquerade,
followed by Boswell's poem. September 1769. Pp. 451-6.
On the Profession of a Player. August, September, October 1770.
Letter, with an unpublished song by Goldsmith, intended to have been sung
in She Stoops to Conquer. June 1774.
The Hypochondriack. Seventy numbers, from October 1777 to August
1783.
(? ) The Story of Mr Levet. Signed S. Y. September 1783.
(? ) Memoirs of Mrs Anne Williams. Signed B. December 1783.
The Gentleman's Magazine.
Two Letters in reply to criticisms on the Journal. April 1786.
Ode to Mr Charles Dilly. April 1791 (of. June, p. 564).
Letters in reply to Miss Anna Seward. November 1793, January 1794.
(He was preparing a reply to Samuel Parr shortly before his death.
June 1795, p. 525. ]
The European Magazine.
Memoirs of James Boswell, Esq. May, June 1791.
The Edinburgh Courant.
Correspondence on the Douglas Cause, reprinted in the Scots Magazine for
June, July, August 1768.
The Public Advertiser.
Letter, with 'a genuine copy of the Theatre-Royal Prologue. 12 January
1768.
[In this letter Boswell is an old correspondent. ']
The St James's Chronicle.
Letter on Hackman, the murderer. 17 April 1779. [See Notes and Queries,
September 1863, p. 232. ]
C. Contemporary Criticism (apart from Reviews in Periodicals)
An Epistle to James Boswell, Esq. , occasioned by his having transmitted the
moral writings of Dr Samuel Johnson to Pascal Paoli. By W. K[en-
rick). 1768.
A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell, Esq. , on his
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. By Peter Pindar. 1786.
Picturesque Beauties of Boswell—twenty caricatures in illustration of
Boswell's Journal. [By Collings and Rowlandson. ] 1786.
Remarks on the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. In a Letter to James
Boswell, Esq. [Signed Verax. ] [7 1786. ]
A Defence of Mr Boswell's Journal, in a Letter to the Author of the
Remarks. 1786.
The Remarker Remarked; or, a Parody on the Letter to Mr Boswell, on his
Tour, etc. 1786.
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An Epistle to James Boswell, Esq. ; occasioned by his long-expected, and
now speedily to be published Life of Dr Johnson. 1790.
A Letter to James Boswell, Esq. With some Remarks on Johnson's
Dictionary, and on Language, etc. 1792.
D. Later Biography and Criticism
[See, also, ante, JOHNSON, secs. E, F, G. ]
Biographicus [Temple, J. W. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine,
August 1795.
C. [Courtenay, J. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Carlyle, Thomas. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson in Fraser's Magazine.
May 1832.
Fitzgerald, Percy. Life of James Boswell. 2 vols. 1891.
Forbes, Sir William. Life of Beattie. 1806.
Green, M. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Henley, W. E. Views and Reviews. 1902.
Hill, G. Birkbeck. Boswell's Proof Sheets, in Johnson Club Papers. 1899.
Holcroft, Thomas. Memoirs. 3 vols. 1816.
Johnson, Lionel. Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers. 1911.
Leask, W. Keith. James Boswell. (Famous Scots Series. ) 1897.
Macaulay, Lord. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson. The Edinburgh
Review. September 1831.
Mallory, George. Boswell the Biographer. 1912.
Malone, Edmond. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Nichols, John. Literary Anecdotes. 9 vols. 1812–15.
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. 8 vols.
1817-58.
R. , J. B. Memoirs of Boswell. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1795.
Raleigh, Sir Walter. Six Essays on Johnson. 1910.
Rogers, Charles. Memoir, prefixed to Boswelliana. 1874.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Art. on Boswell in D. of N. B. vol. 11. 1886.
Taylor, John. Records of my Life. 2 vols. 1832.
Whyte, E. A. Remarks on Boswell's Life of Johnson, Dublin, 1797.
(Included in A Miscellany by Whyte, S. and E. A. , 1799; reissued as
Miscellanea Nova, 1800 and 1801. )
CHAPTER IX
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I. COLLECTED WORKS
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. Compiled for Bishop
Percy, and edited by Rose, Samuel. 4 vols. 1801. (Includes the so-
called Percy memoir, and unpublished prologues to She Stoops to
Conquer. ) In the 4th edn, 1820, was first printed the oratorio The Cap-
tivity, afterwards issued separately in 1837.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Prior, James. 4 vols.
1837. (Contains a variety of piece now first collected. ')
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Murray's British Classics. ) Ed. Cunning-
ham, Peter. 4 vols. 1854. (First printed translation of Vida's Game of
Chess. )
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481
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With memoir by Spalding, William.
1858. (Contains facsimile of important letter to Mrs Lawder (Jane
Contarine). )
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With life, etc. , by Waller, J. F. 1864-5.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Globe edn. Biographical
introduction by Masson, David. 1869.
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Bohn's Standard Library. ) With notes
and life by Gibbs, J. W. M. 5 vols. 1885-6. (Contains some ‘hitherto
uncollected' pieces. )
II. Part COLLECTIONS
Poems and Plays, 1777; Poetical and Dramatic Works, 2 vols. 1780; Poetical
Works, Aldine edn, ed. Mitford, John, 1831; new edn, 1895; Poetical
Works, ed. Corney, Bolton, 1846; Goldsmith's Select Poems, ed. Lobban,
J. H. , 1900; Complete Poetical Works, ed. Dobson, A. , Oxford edn,
1906; Plays of Goldsmith, Belles-Lettres Series, edd. Dobson, A. and
Baker, George P. , 1903; and Plays and Vicar of Wakefield, by Doble,
C. E. and Ostler, G. , Oxford edn, 1909. (This last contains a valuable
glossarial index. )
III. SEPARATE WORKS
The Memoirs of a Protestant, condemned to the Galleys of France, for his
Religion. Written by Himself . . . . Translated from the Original, just
published at the Hague, by Willington, James. 2 vols. 1758. Reprint
published in 1895, with introduction by Dobson, A. , and facsimile of
Goldsmith's receipt to Edward Dilly.
An Enquiry into the present state of Polite Learning in Europe. 1759.
2nd edn, 'revised and corrected,' 1774. (In this edn much is omitted,
including the verses from Macrobius (Prologue of Laberius). )
The Bee. 6 October to 24 November 1759. Issued in a volume, December
1759. Annotated edn, by Dobson, A. (Temple Classics. ) 1903.
Memoirs of M. de Voltaire. The Lady's Magazine. 1761.
The Mystery Revealed. (Pamphlet on the Cook-lane Ghost. ) 1742 (1762).
The History of Mecklenburgh. 1762.
The Art of Poetry. 2 vols. 1762. (Said to have been revised by Goldsmith
for Newbery. )
The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing
in London, to his Friend in the East. Appeared in The Public Ledger
as Chinese Letters from 24 January 1760 to 14 August 1761; published
in two volumes, May 1762. Separate annotated edns by Knight, Charles,
1840; and Dobson, A. (Temple Library), 2 vols. 1891; and Temple Classics,
2 vols. 1900.
Plutarch's Lives, abridged from the Greek. By Goldsmith and Joseph
Collyer. 7 vols. 1762.
The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esquire, 1762. 2nd edn, revised.
Same year.
An History of England in a series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son.
2 vols. 1764.
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. Published 19 December 1764
(dated 1765). Three edns quickly followed, and a 9th was issued in
1774, the year of the author's death. (Numerous alterations were made
between the 1st and the 6th edn, of 1770. )
Essays. By Mr Goldsmith. 1765. 2nd edn, corrected, 1766.
Edwin and Angelina (The Hermit). Printed privately for the amusement of
E. L. X.
31 •
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482
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the Countess of Northumberland. [1765. ] (Afterwards included in The
Vicar of Wakefield. )
The Vicar of Wakefield. 2 vols. 1766. Pub. 27 March. 2nd edn, 31 May;
3rd edn, 29 August; 4th edn, 1770; 5th edn, April 1774 (dated 1773).
(Johnson's 'exact narration' in Boswell (ed. Hill, G. B. , 1887, vol. I,
p. 416, and vol. II, p. 321), of which most other accounts are variations,
was that, some time before the publication of The Traveller in 1764,
having been applied to by Goldsmith in distress and durance, he
[Johnson) sold the MS to a bookseller for £60 (or guineas). In Charles
Welsh's life of Newbery, 1885, pp. 58-9, that writer pointed out that he
had found in some old account-books an entry showing that Goldsmith
had sold a third share of the book to Benjamin Collins, printer, of
Salisbury (who afterwards printed it), 28 October 1762, for £21. That
The Vicar was being written in 1761-2, is plain from internal evidence
(references to the musical glasses, the Auditor, etc. ); but no conclusive
solution of the apparent conflict between the two stories has yet been
propounded, although it may be a very simple one. )
A detailed bibliography of The Vicar, coming down to 1885, is prefixed
to Stock’s facsimile reprint of that date. There is also a bibliography in
the Great Writers series. Separate annotated editions were issued in
The Parchment Library, 1883, rev. 1908; by Macmillan, Michael, 1897;
and Doble, C. E. , Oxford edn, 1909.
A Concise History of Philosophy and Philosophers. Translated by Goldsmith
from the French of Formey, J. H. S. 1766.
A Short English Grammar, 1766.
Poems for Young Ladies. Collected, with Preface by Goldsmith. 1767.
Beauties of English Poesy. 2 vols. 1767.
The Good Naturd Man, a Comedy. 1768 (5 February). Produced at Covent
garden, 29 January. 5th edn. 1768.
The Roman History.
gerald's edition, 1888. ]
The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr
Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson. 1793.
No Abolition of Slavery; or the Universal Empire of Love: a Poem. 1791.
[Anon. ]
Songs in the Jnsticiary Opera, Composed fifty years ago, By C-M-
and B-, I. C. C. Auchinleck, 1816.
[‘Those that are here preserved are given from memory. Advertise-
ment. ]
Privately printed for Sir Alexander Boswell; included in Maidment's
Court of Session Garland, 1839 etc.
Letters of James Boswell, addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple. Now first
published from the original MSS. With an introduction and notes [by
Francis, Philip). 1857.
with an introduction by Seccombe, T. 1908.
Boswelliana. The Commonplace Book of James Boswell. With a memoir
and annotations by the Rev. Charles Rogers . . . and introductory remarks
by . . . Lord Houghton. Printed for the Grampian Club. 1874.
[A selection limited to 'anecdotes personal to the writer' had been
contributed by Milnes, R. M. , afterwards Lord Houghton, to the Mis-
cellanies of the Philobiblon Society, vol. 11, 1855-6. ]
Wrongly attributed to Boswell
The Speeches, Arguments, and Determinations of The Lords of Council and
Session in Scotland, upon [the Douglas Cause). With an Introductory
Preface. By a Barrister at Law. Almon. 1767.
[Attributed to Boswell in Halkett and Laing. ]
A Letter to Robert Macqueen Lord Braxfield, on his promotion to be one of
the Judges of the High Court of Justiciary. Edinburgh, 1780.
[Attributed to Boswell in the Bodleian Catalogue. ]
B. Contributions to Periodicals
The Scots Magazine.
Verses on the equestrian statue of King Charles II in the Parliament close,
being painted white. September 1767.
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479
Prologue at the opening of the Theatre-Royal in Edinburgh. November
1767.
Memorial in behalf of the Corsicans. December 1768.
[The numbers for June, July, August 1768 contain correspondence
between the Hon. Miss Primerose and the author of the Essence of the
Douglas Cause reprinted from the Edinburgh Courant. ]
The London Magazine.
Memorial in Behalf of the Corsicans. December 1768.
A Letter from James Boswell, Esq. , on Shakespeare's Jubilee at Stratford-
upon-Avon: An Account of the Armed Corsican Chief at the Masquerade,
followed by Boswell's poem. September 1769. Pp. 451-6.
On the Profession of a Player. August, September, October 1770.
Letter, with an unpublished song by Goldsmith, intended to have been sung
in She Stoops to Conquer. June 1774.
The Hypochondriack. Seventy numbers, from October 1777 to August
1783.
(? ) The Story of Mr Levet. Signed S. Y. September 1783.
(? ) Memoirs of Mrs Anne Williams. Signed B. December 1783.
The Gentleman's Magazine.
Two Letters in reply to criticisms on the Journal. April 1786.
Ode to Mr Charles Dilly. April 1791 (of. June, p. 564).
Letters in reply to Miss Anna Seward. November 1793, January 1794.
(He was preparing a reply to Samuel Parr shortly before his death.
June 1795, p. 525. ]
The European Magazine.
Memoirs of James Boswell, Esq. May, June 1791.
The Edinburgh Courant.
Correspondence on the Douglas Cause, reprinted in the Scots Magazine for
June, July, August 1768.
The Public Advertiser.
Letter, with 'a genuine copy of the Theatre-Royal Prologue. 12 January
1768.
[In this letter Boswell is an old correspondent. ']
The St James's Chronicle.
Letter on Hackman, the murderer. 17 April 1779. [See Notes and Queries,
September 1863, p. 232. ]
C. Contemporary Criticism (apart from Reviews in Periodicals)
An Epistle to James Boswell, Esq. , occasioned by his having transmitted the
moral writings of Dr Samuel Johnson to Pascal Paoli. By W. K[en-
rick). 1768.
A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell, Esq. , on his
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. By Peter Pindar. 1786.
Picturesque Beauties of Boswell—twenty caricatures in illustration of
Boswell's Journal. [By Collings and Rowlandson. ] 1786.
Remarks on the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. In a Letter to James
Boswell, Esq. [Signed Verax. ] [7 1786. ]
A Defence of Mr Boswell's Journal, in a Letter to the Author of the
Remarks. 1786.
The Remarker Remarked; or, a Parody on the Letter to Mr Boswell, on his
Tour, etc. 1786.
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480
Bibliography
An Epistle to James Boswell, Esq. ; occasioned by his long-expected, and
now speedily to be published Life of Dr Johnson. 1790.
A Letter to James Boswell, Esq. With some Remarks on Johnson's
Dictionary, and on Language, etc. 1792.
D. Later Biography and Criticism
[See, also, ante, JOHNSON, secs. E, F, G. ]
Biographicus [Temple, J. W. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine,
August 1795.
C. [Courtenay, J. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Carlyle, Thomas. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson in Fraser's Magazine.
May 1832.
Fitzgerald, Percy. Life of James Boswell. 2 vols. 1891.
Forbes, Sir William. Life of Beattie. 1806.
Green, M. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Henley, W. E. Views and Reviews. 1902.
Hill, G. Birkbeck. Boswell's Proof Sheets, in Johnson Club Papers. 1899.
Holcroft, Thomas. Memoirs. 3 vols. 1816.
Johnson, Lionel. Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers. 1911.
Leask, W. Keith. James Boswell. (Famous Scots Series. ) 1897.
Macaulay, Lord. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson. The Edinburgh
Review. September 1831.
Mallory, George. Boswell the Biographer. 1912.
Malone, Edmond. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Nichols, John. Literary Anecdotes. 9 vols. 1812–15.
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. 8 vols.
1817-58.
R. , J. B. Memoirs of Boswell. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1795.
Raleigh, Sir Walter. Six Essays on Johnson. 1910.
Rogers, Charles. Memoir, prefixed to Boswelliana. 1874.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Art. on Boswell in D. of N. B. vol. 11. 1886.
Taylor, John. Records of my Life. 2 vols. 1832.
Whyte, E. A. Remarks on Boswell's Life of Johnson, Dublin, 1797.
(Included in A Miscellany by Whyte, S. and E. A. , 1799; reissued as
Miscellanea Nova, 1800 and 1801. )
CHAPTER IX
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I. COLLECTED WORKS
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. Compiled for Bishop
Percy, and edited by Rose, Samuel. 4 vols. 1801. (Includes the so-
called Percy memoir, and unpublished prologues to She Stoops to
Conquer. ) In the 4th edn, 1820, was first printed the oratorio The Cap-
tivity, afterwards issued separately in 1837.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Prior, James. 4 vols.
1837. (Contains a variety of piece now first collected. ')
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Murray's British Classics. ) Ed. Cunning-
ham, Peter. 4 vols. 1854. (First printed translation of Vida's Game of
Chess. )
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481
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With memoir by Spalding, William.
1858. (Contains facsimile of important letter to Mrs Lawder (Jane
Contarine). )
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With life, etc. , by Waller, J. F. 1864-5.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Globe edn. Biographical
introduction by Masson, David. 1869.
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Bohn's Standard Library. ) With notes
and life by Gibbs, J. W. M. 5 vols. 1885-6. (Contains some ‘hitherto
uncollected' pieces. )
II. Part COLLECTIONS
Poems and Plays, 1777; Poetical and Dramatic Works, 2 vols. 1780; Poetical
Works, Aldine edn, ed. Mitford, John, 1831; new edn, 1895; Poetical
Works, ed. Corney, Bolton, 1846; Goldsmith's Select Poems, ed. Lobban,
J. H. , 1900; Complete Poetical Works, ed. Dobson, A. , Oxford edn,
1906; Plays of Goldsmith, Belles-Lettres Series, edd. Dobson, A. and
Baker, George P. , 1903; and Plays and Vicar of Wakefield, by Doble,
C. E. and Ostler, G. , Oxford edn, 1909. (This last contains a valuable
glossarial index. )
III. SEPARATE WORKS
The Memoirs of a Protestant, condemned to the Galleys of France, for his
Religion. Written by Himself . . . . Translated from the Original, just
published at the Hague, by Willington, James. 2 vols. 1758. Reprint
published in 1895, with introduction by Dobson, A. , and facsimile of
Goldsmith's receipt to Edward Dilly.
An Enquiry into the present state of Polite Learning in Europe. 1759.
2nd edn, 'revised and corrected,' 1774. (In this edn much is omitted,
including the verses from Macrobius (Prologue of Laberius). )
The Bee. 6 October to 24 November 1759. Issued in a volume, December
1759. Annotated edn, by Dobson, A. (Temple Classics. ) 1903.
Memoirs of M. de Voltaire. The Lady's Magazine. 1761.
The Mystery Revealed. (Pamphlet on the Cook-lane Ghost. ) 1742 (1762).
The History of Mecklenburgh. 1762.
The Art of Poetry. 2 vols. 1762. (Said to have been revised by Goldsmith
for Newbery. )
The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing
in London, to his Friend in the East. Appeared in The Public Ledger
as Chinese Letters from 24 January 1760 to 14 August 1761; published
in two volumes, May 1762. Separate annotated edns by Knight, Charles,
1840; and Dobson, A. (Temple Library), 2 vols. 1891; and Temple Classics,
2 vols. 1900.
Plutarch's Lives, abridged from the Greek. By Goldsmith and Joseph
Collyer. 7 vols. 1762.
The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esquire, 1762. 2nd edn, revised.
Same year.
An History of England in a series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son.
2 vols. 1764.
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. Published 19 December 1764
(dated 1765). Three edns quickly followed, and a 9th was issued in
1774, the year of the author's death. (Numerous alterations were made
between the 1st and the 6th edn, of 1770. )
Essays. By Mr Goldsmith. 1765. 2nd edn, corrected, 1766.
Edwin and Angelina (The Hermit). Printed privately for the amusement of
E. L. X.
31 •
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482
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the Countess of Northumberland. [1765. ] (Afterwards included in The
Vicar of Wakefield. )
The Vicar of Wakefield. 2 vols. 1766. Pub. 27 March. 2nd edn, 31 May;
3rd edn, 29 August; 4th edn, 1770; 5th edn, April 1774 (dated 1773).
(Johnson's 'exact narration' in Boswell (ed. Hill, G. B. , 1887, vol. I,
p. 416, and vol. II, p. 321), of which most other accounts are variations,
was that, some time before the publication of The Traveller in 1764,
having been applied to by Goldsmith in distress and durance, he
[Johnson) sold the MS to a bookseller for £60 (or guineas). In Charles
Welsh's life of Newbery, 1885, pp. 58-9, that writer pointed out that he
had found in some old account-books an entry showing that Goldsmith
had sold a third share of the book to Benjamin Collins, printer, of
Salisbury (who afterwards printed it), 28 October 1762, for £21. That
The Vicar was being written in 1761-2, is plain from internal evidence
(references to the musical glasses, the Auditor, etc. ); but no conclusive
solution of the apparent conflict between the two stories has yet been
propounded, although it may be a very simple one. )
A detailed bibliography of The Vicar, coming down to 1885, is prefixed
to Stock’s facsimile reprint of that date. There is also a bibliography in
the Great Writers series. Separate annotated editions were issued in
The Parchment Library, 1883, rev. 1908; by Macmillan, Michael, 1897;
and Doble, C. E. , Oxford edn, 1909.
A Concise History of Philosophy and Philosophers. Translated by Goldsmith
from the French of Formey, J. H. S. 1766.
A Short English Grammar, 1766.
Poems for Young Ladies. Collected, with Preface by Goldsmith. 1767.
Beauties of English Poesy. 2 vols. 1767.
The Good Naturd Man, a Comedy. 1768 (5 February). Produced at Covent
garden, 29 January. 5th edn. 1768.
The Roman History.
