Author: Oliver Goldsmith; prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury
Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Description: London, John C Nimmo, 1886. Leather. A colour illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. With one hundred and fourteen coloured illustrations by Poinson. With a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. The Vicar of Wakefield was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Previous owner's ink inscription dated 1888. In a half morocco binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities, slight rubbing to front board, stains and loss to paper to rear board. Hinges strained. Internally, generally firmly bound although slightly strained in places. Bright but with slight scattered foxing throughout and handling marks to text block edges. Good . Ill.: Poinson. Good .
Keywords: Saintsbury Victorian Goldsmith Middlemarch Victorian Poinson
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Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Description: London, John C Nimmo, 1886. Leather. A colour illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. With one hundred and fourteen coloured illustrations by Poinson. With a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. The Vicar of Wakefield was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Previous owner's ink inscription dated 1888. In a half morocco binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities, slight rubbing to front board, stains and loss to paper to rear board. Hinges strained. Internally, generally firmly bound although slightly strained in places. Bright but with slight scattered foxing throughout and handling marks to text block edges. Good . Ill.: Poinson. Good .
Keywords: Saintsbury Victorian Goldsmith Middlemarch Victorian Poinson
Price: GBP 49.99 = appr. US$ 71.38 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: LTH6-C-11
- Book number: LTH6-C-11
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