[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited Rackham in original box, not noted in bibliography

[Charles Agvent]

(RACKHAM, Arthur) GOLDSMITH, Oliver THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
George G. Harrap & Co London 1929 First Edition Quarto (8" x 10-1/2") 
bound in the original full gilt-decorated vellum. Illustrated with 12 
color plates and 22 black and white drawings. Copy #330 of 575 of the 
English issue SIGNED by the illustrator Arthur Rackham. There were also 
200 in the American issue. Small adhesive remnant of a bookplate on the 
verso of the front free endpaper. Some spotting to the spine, a little 
less so to the front cover. In the original box, not noted by Latimore 
and Haskell in their bibliography of Rackham and never seen by us 
before. It is green cardboard, the bottom with a smooth white surface 
and the top with a printed label containing the title of the book and 
the limitation number on one flap. The box is in Very Good condition, 
complete with tears at most corners and one tear on one bottom flap. 
Fine copy in the scarce original box.        $2000.00
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