The Citizen of the World: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East mars slightly torn in places (with

slightly torn in places (with neat repairs using archival tape)

Navy blue hardback with silver lettering to the spine

Cancelled bookplate of the Underground Library laid down to front pastedown page

Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations

out-of-the-way towns in southern Siberia

The Citizen of the World: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East mars slightly torn in places (withLondon: 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