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Subject(s)

• Conduct of life—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Children's stories, English [Browse]

Publisher

Newbery, John, 1713-1767 [Browse]

Attributed name

• Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 [Browse]
• Jones, Giles, active 1765 [Browse]

Former owner

Doheny, Estelle, 1875-1958 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Notes

• Remainder of title: "With the means by which she acquired her learning and wisdom, and in consequence thereof her estate; set forth at large for the benefit of those, who from a state of rags and care,/ and having shoes but half a pair;/ their fortune and their fame would fix,/ and gallop in their coach and six. See the original manuscript in the Vatican at Rome, and the cuts by Michael Angelo; illustrated with the comments of our great modern critics."
• "[Price Six-pence.]"
• Authorship attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, Giles Jones, or John Newbery; cf. Carpenter, H. Oxford companion to children's literature.
• Publisher's advertisements on [4] p. at end.
• Cotsen copy: Signatures on free endpaper: 'Mary Mackey' and 'Miss Hannah Bell Dec 1 1782'.
• Cotsen copy: In red levant case with oval morocco label of Esther Doheny.

Binding note

Pub. Dutch floral boards.

Contents

• Part I. Renowned history of little Goody Two-Shoes : commonly called old Goody Two-Shoes
• Part II. Renowned history of Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes
• Appendix. The golden dream, or, The ingenuous confession
• Letter from the printer, which he desires may be inserted.

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References

• Roscoe, S. Newbery (1973) J167(4)
• Osborne coll., p. 889

Other title(s)

• Renowned history of Goody Two-Shoes
• Renowned history of Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes

OCLC

63106348

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