Believed to be circa 1904 Illustrated by Edmund J Sullivan with a tissue guard in front of the frontispiece sketch and an introduction by Richard Garnett Burgundy cloth jacket with a gold escutcheon on the front board Some browning to the title page and a very small dedication on the front free page. This edition is in a protective cellophane wrapper. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) 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 play She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). In 1760 Goldsmith began to publish a series of letters in the Public Ledger under the title The Chinese Letters. Purportedly written by a Chinese traveller in England by the name of Lien Chi, they used this fictional outsider's perspective to comment ironically and at times moralistically on British society and manners. They were brought together in a single book, "Letters from