[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely Henry Frowde Edition of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774).

The Vicar of Wakefield.

Series: The World's Classics, IV, The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. I.

12mo.  6 1/4 x 4 inches.  vii, 213, [ads 8] pp.  Frontispiece portrait of Goldsmith, title-page and frontispiece printed within a green rose border; text clean, unmarked.  Quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, black-leather spine label titled in gilt, gilt rose and leaf pattern stamped in the spine, top edge gilt; binding square and tight, lightly rubbed.  Very Good. 

Reprint.  Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best-known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, first published in 1766. 

A lovely edition with vellum spine of this classic tale.

$ 75.00

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