This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...place." Every one knows Boswell's carefullyworded account of the romantic circumstances in which Johnson relieved Goldsmith's distress by selling the manuscript of his novel to some unnamed bookseller for fio. Boswell's story is professedly Johnson's "own exact version," and corrects what he calls the "strangely ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...place." Every one knows Boswell's carefullyworded account of the romantic circumstances in which Johnson relieved Goldsmith's distress by selling the manuscript of his novel to some unnamed bookseller for fio. Boswell's story is professedly Johnson's "own exact version," and corrects what he calls the "strangely misstated" facts of Mrs. Thrale and Sir John Hawkins. With these varying accounts Mr. Austin Dobson collates that of Richard Cumberland, and observes, in conclusion: "Boswell's story alone wears an air of veracity, and it has generally been regarded as the accepted version." The novel was published March 27th, 1766, and was advertised in the Public Advertiser of the same date, together with The Traveller, which was published in 1764. Mr. Dobson has discovered that as far back as October 28th, 1762, Collins, the Salisbury printer, had purchased of " Dr. Goldsmith, the Author," for 21 a third share in The Vicar of Wakefield. This interesting fact is disclosed by an old account book, once belonging to Collins, and now in possession of Mr. Charles Welsh, a member of the firm of publishers successors to John Newberry. Several curious items connected with the sale of the novel are communicated by Mr. Welsh. It appears from the memoranda of Collins that the fourth edition started with a loss, and Collins sold his third share for five guineas. "The impression has been general that this immortal work enjoyed a brisk sale, at least in the early editions, and that the original purchaser delayed its publication for some fifteen months. The strange truth is now revealed that for more than three years did its three owners agree to keep it from the light, and that one of them was so hopeless of its permanent ...
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