From the 1870s, this is The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, published by William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh, Scotland. Featuring the full length novel the Vicar of Wakefield, his non-fiction epic Citizen of the World, to His Friends in the East, the Present State of Polite Learning, etc., in the two column format. Handsomely bound in pebbled green cloth, bright gilt titles. 458 pages. Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).