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Paperback. Condizione: G+. Listed 15th out of 16 unnumbered titles on rear cover. Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

FIRST OR EARLY REPRINT pre 1887, No. 15 in list of 16 on lower cover. 205 x 237 mm, 8 x 9¼ inches, limp card covers colour illustrated, 22 pages. 6 colour plates, line drawings throughout. Bookseller's small faint stamp on background near lower edge of upper cover, small name in top margin of upper cover, 2 mm (1/10") chip at head of spine, very little very faint foxing to title page, next 2 pages and last 3 pages. Very good copy. First published in 1885 there is no way of telling whether this copy is a first or not but the adverts do not list the edition which collects all 16 titles, published in 1887. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Hardcover. Condizione: vg. First American trade edition. Quarto (10 x 7 1/2"). 231, [1]pp. Original gray-blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on front cover and spine. Top of book block in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated half-title and title page. Color frontispiece. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With "The Vicar of Wakefield" of 1929. Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson, p.126). "The Vicar of Wakefield" is a novel by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century books. 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," Sarah Grand's "The Heavenly Twins," Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" and "Villette," Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" and in Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," as well as his "Dichtung und Wahrheit." (Wikipedia). For more information, see: Hudson, p.171. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65. Riall, p.170. This handsome book is splendidly illustrated throughout with 12 color plates and 22 b/w in-text illustrations. Binding overall very good-, interior has age toning , starting in very good- condition. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. All books outside UK sent airmail and all books tracked. PayPal accepted. First Edition thus. Original olive green cloth with gilt design. 4to size. Gilt top, uncut fore edge. Covers and spine marked and a little faded and spotting on rear. Illustrated by Edmund J Sullivan with 16 coloured plates with tissue guards and 48 full page black and white illustrations and many smaller drawings throughout text, all plates are present as listed. (illustratore).…