Item #128029 THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. Oliver Goldsmith, Arthur Rackham.

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Pp. 232, coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, the title and title page vignette printed in red, black & white half-title vignette and text illustrations, pictorial endpapers printed in grey/green; cr. 4to; bound in olive green/grey morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board lettered and decorated in gilt and featuring an inlaid Rackham illustration in white, blue, rose & black leather (based on the frontispiece), corners of boards a trifle bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; a little faint foxing; Harrap, London, 1929. First trade edition, publisher's special binding; being one of a few copies (number not specified) thus bound and signed by the artist on the half-title page. Riall p. 170; Latimore & Haskell p. 65. Item #128029

Price: $2,750.00

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