Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FARQUHAR, George. The Stage Coach a comedy: as it was acted at the New Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties Servants. London : Printed, and are to be Sold by Benjamin Bragg, at the Blew-Ball in Ave-Mary-Lane. 1705. quarto. First edition. Believed to be unique. With an ‘ Epistle Dedi- catory to Samuel Bagshaw, Esquire,’ but without Farquhar’s name. According to the Dictionary of National Biography he was helped in this play by Motteux. Bought in 1892. GOODY TWO-SHOES. The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes; otherwic^ called Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes. 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 a 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. The Third Edition. London: printed for J. New- bery, at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's-Church- Yard, 1766. [Price Six-pence.] The first edition of‘Goody Two-Shoes’ is said to have been published in April 1765, but this and the second edition have com- pletely disappeared. Mr. Welch in his reprint of 1882 supported the theory which attributes its authorship to Goldsmith. In the British Museum it used to be an article of faith that it was written by Giles Jones, grandfather of Mr. Winter Jones, Panizzi’s successor as Principal Librarian. A copy of the edition of 1796, bought in 1893, has some notes in it supporting this attribution. The edition of 1766 was bought in 1892.