Author: Goldsmith, Oliver
Title: The Vicar Of Goldsmith - A Tale
Description: Bickers & Son, 1883, 1st thus. Half calf, G. xii+308pp, b/w frontis & 11 b/w plates ( each being a photograph pasted to the page ), leather very faded & dry, spine splitting along the hinges, endpapers rather foxed, Ex Libris Jophn Astell with his bookplate. A reading copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The plates in the book are announced on the title page as being reproduced by the process of 'Permanent Photography'. Nicely produced, if worn out in this example, edition of Goldsmith's classic work which was originally published in 1766.

Keywords: literature, fiction, photography