This was the earliest edition known to Mr. Welsh; but an edition of 1752 was afterwards discovered and noted in _The Times Literary Supplement_, Dec. 18, 1919, under “Notes on Sales”. This seems to be the first edition of _Tommy Trip’s History_; but an earlier account of him is given in _The Lilliputian Magazine_, first advertised in 1751. Goldsmith came to London after his travels on the Continent, in 1756, so that he could not have written _Tommy Trip_, although the rhyme of “Three Children”, as Mr. Welsh observed, is remarkably like the “Elegy on a Mad Dog”.