The Citizen of the World: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East army The bulk of the book

The bulk of the book consists of the Quenta Silmarillion

tips of corners a touch rubbed

colour frontispiece of the author (painted by Henry Lamb in 1926) and a folding map of Guiana opposite p196

The work was first published in 1886

The Citizen of the World: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East army The bulk of the bookLondon: Taylor and Hessey George Cowey, 1819. Two volumes, complete. Small 8vo. pp xvi, [1], 2 278; viii, [1], 2 230. Bound in contemporary leather with wide patterned gilt border to front and back, heavily gilt spines. Head of spine on vol I chipped and edges rubbed, joint becoming tender. An decent copy in nice period binding. A collection of 119 satirical letters in which Goldsmith uses his fictitious author, Lien Chi Altangi, to deliver witty and