Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Description: London, Adam and Charles Black , 1903. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated copy of Oliver Goldsmith's popular novel, with an essay on the work by John Foster. Reprint. First published in 1766. Illustrated by John Massey Wright with a colour frontispiece and twelve facsimile plates depicting Wright's original illustrations. Collated complete. This novel was written by the renowned Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith and was one of the most popular and widely read eighteenth century novels among Victorians. With an introduction by Joseph Grego,and a prefatory essay by the renowned English essayist John Foster, reprinted from Foster's earlier work 'The Life and Times of Goldsmith&apos.  In the original publisher's cloth. Externally very smart with bumping to the extremities, closed tears to the joints, very minimal loss to the cloth to the tail of the spine, rubbing to the fore edge of the boards and the odd slight mark. Offsetting to the free endpapers with marks to the pastedowns. Internally firmly bound with generally bright pages and occasional light spotting. Very Good . Ill.: John Massey Wright. Very Good .

Keywords: Illustrated Oliver Goldsmith John Foster Fiction Oliver Goldsmith John Massey Wright


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