The Citizen of the World: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East army The work was first published

The work was first published in 1886

This handsome set comprises Middlemarch

Publisher's lime green cloth-backed marbled boards with gilt titles to spine and paper labels to upper boards

Large hardback with the mint dust-jacket

endpapers and titlepage slightly spotted

The Citizen of the World: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East army The work was first publishedLondon: 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