Fourth Edition: with (bound in) The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. A Poem, by Oliver Goldsmith. Sixth Edition, Corrected. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newberry, 1770. vii, [1], 23; iv, 23 pp. 10x8, bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. (Joints split, rubbed, edge wear, bottom 3" of leather spine missing; binding shaken, archival paper repairs to chips and tears scattered throughout, still good).

Also, The Sixth Edition: vii, [1], 23 pp. 10¼x8¼, bound in recent yellow paper over boards, photocopied pictorial cover label (taken from the title), new endpapers. (Front hinge cracked, finger-soiling, archival repairing to upper title verso near gutter, else very good). Together, 2 volumes. Both with a copper-engraved scene on the title page and both still with the word "Careless" on page 9, second to last line. Both editions published in the same year as the first edition. The Deserted Village is considered Goldsmith's finest work and written to commemorate the loss of his brother. His other great book, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is his most famous novel. Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds regarded Goldsmith as the finest writer of their age and who was a personal friend of both.