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Edmund Goldsmid

A lively 19th-century editor and translator, this Edinburgh-based antiquarian helped rescue strange, rare, and little-known texts from obscurity. His books often open a door into curious corners of history, folklore, and early print culture.

2 Audiobooks

Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries

Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries

by Edmund Goldsmid

Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards, Temp. Charles II. Forming a Complete Political Satire of the Commonwealth

Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards, Temp. Charles II. Forming a Complete Political Satire of the Commonwealth

by Edmund Goldsmid

About the author

Active in the 1880s, Edmund Marsden Goldsmid was a Scottish antiquarian, editor, and translator based in Edinburgh. He is best known for compiling and reissuing rare historical works, especially texts that might otherwise have remained hard to find.

Goldsmid founded and edited series such as Bibliotheca Curiosa and Collectanea Adamantaea, which gathered unusual manuscripts, early bibliographies, Restoration literature, and other niche material. His name appears on a wide range of editions and translations, showing a strong interest in preserving odd, scholarly, and often overlooked books.

Because so much of his reputation rests on editorial work rather than on a single famous original title, he is remembered less as a conventional author than as a devoted literary excavator. For listeners drawn to forgotten histories and eccentric old texts, that makes him an especially intriguing guide.