Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. Leather. A smartly bound edition of this classic Victorian novel from Goldsmith, with illustrations from Hugh Thomson. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. One of the most widely read eighteenth century novels among Victorians, this piece follows the lives of the Primrose family through bankruptcy. Written by Oliver Goldsmith, an Anglo-Irish novelist, dramatist, and poet. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, an Irish Illustrator best known for his pen-and-ink images. With school prize bookplate and Hastings Grammar School Prize Distribution Programme for Saturday 19th December 1908. Bound in full brown calf with gilt. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the endpapers. School prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Hugh Thomson. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Vicar Wakefield Goldsmith Thomson Wakefield Hugh Thomson


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