1-272-968 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Agreement by Oliver Goldsmith to write for James Dodsley, 31st March 1763. Agreement (never carried out) to write for James Dodsley, the publisher, a Chronological History of the Lives of Eminent Persons of Great Britain and Ireland, in about two volumes, octavo, each of not more than thirty-five sheets, at the rate of three guineas a sheet. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).