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Price: US$14.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 291 pages plus 23 pages of adverts. Hardback, 25 x 17 cm. Excellent internally, well bound and square. Bevelled boards and gold gilt top edge. However, the back cover is stained and there are two small marks on the front cover, and a sticker has been removed from the spine. This edition is the illustrated and embossed one. It is also ex-library.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: And One Hundred and Fourteen Coloured Illustrations. Rebound Ing Grey Cloth Boards.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 291 + 23 publisher's list. Many colour striking illustrations. Light brownish-grey hardcover binidng, gilt-coloured and black titles to front and spine (faded titles and illustration to spine). Wear/chips to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges rough-cut and browned. Some straining at binding so some play with section of pages, slight foxing to a few pages but o/w pages clean and the colour illustrations are delightful.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$37.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Attractive brown cloth, gilt titles, decorated with coloured scenes from the book. Heavy bevelled boards with coloured burgundy endpaper. The front endpaper ahs had a repair at the spine. Previous owner's name on first preliminary page. Title page decorated with coloured cameo scene from the novel. 291 pages plus publisher's 21 page booklist for the Spring of 1886. Book contains 114 superb coloured illustrations. Some very light spotting in places. Size: 7" x 10"
Seller: Bosco Books, Looe, CORNW, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Description: 4to(25.4x16) HB xvi+291pp illus+21pp publ cat. Grey bevelled boards with gilt & brown lettering & brown illustrations. Spine slightly sunned, minor edge wear else good++. Book plate to fep & owner's inscr to page following ffep, somespotting to early pages & a little on some further pages (text unaffected) else very good. (1345g) Heavy volume may require extra shipping costs.
Seller: Bentfinger Book Services, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$39.88 + shipping
Description: Imperial octavo, brown buckram boards, black & gilt lettering & illus to spine & boards, teg, deckled page edges, illus title page & prelims, xvi + 291pp + 23pp publisher's ads, illus, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to spine extrems, light scuffing to board corners & edges, sl fading to spine, light staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout, light occasional cracking to some gutters)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar Of Wakefield. John C.Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$41.22 + shipping
Description: With prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury and One hundred and Fourteen Coloured Illustrations. Bound in fullnbsp;blue leather with bright gilt coat of arms to the front board, gilt titles andnbsp;decorative gilt toolingnbsp;to the spine. Boards and spine are rubbed and worn. All edge marble. ppnbsp;xvinbsp;nbsp; 291. Marble endpapers. Presentation label to the front paste down. Colournbsp;vignette. Some foxing throughout otherwise contents are fairly clean. Binding tight. Overall a very good copy.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. John C. Nimmo, London: 1886, 1886.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury and 114 colorured illustrations by V. A. Poirson.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 291 pp. Brown boards with gold embossed title on front cover and spine accompanied by illustrations have signs of use; there is large chipping along the top and bottom of the spine, and bending as well on the corners. There is also some major foxing on quite a few pages. This edition has 114 illustrations by V.A. Poirson and a Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: DESCRIPTION: Brown cloth illustrated with various colour drawings to front and spine. Bevelled edges. Illustrated with one hundred and fourteen coloured drawings Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, bumped edges, and creased and chipped spine ends. Cracked endpapers with weakening to hinges. Occasional marks and spots to a few pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xvi, 291, 22 (Catalogue dated March 1886). Size: 8vo 26cm by 17cm.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$59.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some dampstain to cover and slight tilt to textblock and a bookplate on inside cover.a nice copy
Seller: Vancouver Books, VANCOUVER, BC, Canada
Price: US$64.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grey cloth binding with attractive gilt lettering, figures in a purplish brown, bevelled edges to the boards, top page edges bright gilt.The book has 114 coloured illustrations by the Victorian artist and illustrator V. A. Poirson which are beautiful. Rubbed to extremities.
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1886, 291pp, illus. in color, aeg, full leather w/ leather inside covers, gilt design to cover & spine w/ lettering to spine, gilt design to inside covers, no dj, contents clean.,
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Oliver Goldsmith.. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.. , 1886.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Description: 1886, London, John C. Nimmo, ppxvi +291, 114 chromolithographs, after Poirson, full red morocco gilt. Slight foxing within, cover slightly rubbed, otherwise v good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Super octavo, original decorated gray cloth over boards, brown and gilt stamping on front cover and spine, brown stamping on back cover, beveled edges, top edge gilt. With 114 color illustrations and a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. Very good, light shelf wear, previous owners bookplate, embossed stamp on title page, some foxing.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An excellent illustrated edition of Oliver Goldsmith's popular sentimental novel, illustrated in colour throughout. The Vicar of Wakefield' is a comedic novel which is often described as being sentimental, and it is narrated by a Vicar, Dr. Charles Primrose. It was first published in 1766, and has been widely read ever since.Important Irish author Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was a writer of both fiction, poetry and non-fiction. His writings include this celebrated novel, as well as biographical and historical works such as 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature', 'The Life of Richard Nash', 'Account of the Augustan Age in England', and 'The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II'.With beautiful and bright illustrations in colour throughout the text.The gilt crest of Owen's School, or Dame Alice Owen's School, Hertfordshire, to the front board. With a prize bookplate awarded first prize in the upper fourth form, dated July 22nd 1891.Bound by Bickers & Son, with gilt detail to the borders, edges and spine.A lovely, brightly illustrated edition of this popular novel. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally generally smart; a little rubbed to the head of the spine, raised bands and joints. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little spotted. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
GOLDSMITH OLIVER. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. JOHN C. NIMMO LONDON, 1886.
Price: US$118.52 + shipping
Description: QUARTO, VERY GOOD, BROWN CLOTH, BEVELLED BOARDS, EXTENSIVE AND CHARMING DECORATION TO FRONT BOARD. 114 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY V. A. POIRSON. INCLUDES PREFATORY MEMOIR BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY. TOP EDGES GILT.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 291, 23 pp. Hardcover, bound in decorative cloth with bevelled edges, top edge gilt. The binding corners rubbed, some fading to top front board.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar Of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Features one hundred and fourteen colored illustrations by V. A. Poirson. Publisher's binding. Marbled boards with gilt. Corners bumped, two showing. Light abrading to edges and joints. Previous author's bookplate on front paste down and stamp on title page. Toning to end papers. Very good. The Vicar of Wakefield Ð subtitled A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself Ð is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728Ð1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians.
Seller: Sam Barcelo, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Description: xvi, [2], 291pp, [1]. With 114 colour illustrations in the text. Bound by Douglas Foulis of Edinburgh in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. A handsome copy of an illustrated edition of Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith's (1730-1774) most renowned work. First published in 1766, The Vicar of Wakefield would become one of the defining novels of the eighteenth-century. Sadly the author was to profit little from the sensational success of the work, as Samuel Johnson had sold the rights for £60 in order to relieve Goldsmith from the pursuit of debtors. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. xvi + 291 pp. Very handsome illustrated rendition of classic country manners novel of Goldsmith's. Poirson's colored illustrations perfectly complement the story, capturing its sweetness and Georgian society, while being very much influenced by the arts and crafts ornamentation and style of the 1880s. While Rackham's illustrations have become more closely associated with the novel, Poirson's are more fitting and in concordance with its mood and spirit. This copy is very tight and clean. The leather does have some shelfwear along the edges, and the spine, with five raised bands, is a little dulled, or I would deem it in fine condition.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$225.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 291pp., illustrated with 114 color illustrations, with prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury, 114 illustrations by Poirson, nicely bound by Bayntun in 3/4 green crushed morocco over green cloth covered baords, raised bands with compartments decorated with a gilt rose motif, marbled endpapers, lettering and top edge gilt, light sunning to spine and top edge of upper board, spine leaning just a bit, smallair bubble to cloth of upper board, a good copy
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Poirson illustrated edition, 8vo (10" x 6 1/2"), pp. xvi, (2), 1-291, (1), 114 color printed illustrations throughout. Three-quarter red morocco & red cloth, back in six gilt paneled compartments, gilt lettered in the second & forth, gilt center flower & corner ornaments in the rest, gilt date at foot, top edges gilt, original pictorial cloth upper side & back-strip bound in at rear. Near fine clean bright copy with some rubbing along the joints edges & corners. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. H9289 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Poirson, V.A. With 114 illustrations in color by V.A. Poirson. 291pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Edition of Goldsmith's Classic. Attractively bound in 3/4 dark green morocco, panelled spine gilt, t.e.g., by Root; headcap slightly chipped, else fine With 114 illustrations in color by V.A. Poirson. 291pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. Illustrations by V.A. Poirson. Small 4to. Fall polished green calf with gilt rules, compartments, gilt spine lettering and decorations, inner dentelles. xvi, 291pp, 23pp ads. All edges gilt. Numerous small color illustrations, marbled endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned to a golden color; hinges a tad delicate but holding. First of this illustrated edition. Superb copy of this scarce, lovingly illustrated edition -- custom bound, with the original brown decorated cloth spine and cloth front and rear panels bound in at rear.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Royal 8vo. [5], ii-xvi, [2], 1-291, [9] pp. Half brown morocco over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with 114 colour illustrations done by Victor Armand Poirson. With a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. A beautifully illustrated edition of Goldsmith's classic novel of deceit, marriage, and drama in the English countryside. A staple of eighteenth-century literature. Minor rubbing to the boards' edges and a contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Vicar of Wakefield. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: London: 1886. Large octavo. Illustrated with 114 color illustrations. Octavo (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 250 x 167 mm). [4], xvi, [2], 291, [1, blank] pp. Modern full autumn morocco. Boards quadruple gilt- ruled. Spine decoratively stamped in gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Gilt dentelles. Green watered silk endpapers. Previous owner's book plate on front blank. A few tiny scratches to back board. Otherwise, about fine. Scott. HBS 65773. $450.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.. London: John C. Nimmo., 1886.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Half morocco, 10 inches tall. A splendid binding by Ramage with gilt raised bands, elegant gilt floral tooling to the panels and gilt top edge. Decorated with 114 coloured illustrations. A lovely, well illustrated, edition of this great 18th century comic novel.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall 8v0. xvi, 291p. Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury. Illustrated with 114 color illustrations by V. A. Poirson, and extra-illustrated with 12 unattributed engravings in black and white. Beautifully bound in half tan crushed morocco with cloth sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and gilt panel ornaments with central red onlays.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling to the front an rear panels, central morocco onlay to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in, illustrated with one hundred and fourteen colored illustrations. With a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. From the library of Eugene Field with his bookplate to the pastedown. Often referred to as "the poet of childhood" American author Eugene Field began publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children, among the most famous of which are "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "The Duel." Equally famous is his poem about the death of a child, "Little Boy Blue." In very good condition. Written between 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. Considered both a sentimental and satirical novel, the book is mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Stendhal's The Life of Henry Brulard, Arthur Schopenhauer's "The Art of Being Right", 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, as well as his Dichtung und Wahrheit.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.. The Vicar of Wakefield.. John C. Nimmo, London, 1886.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: With Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury. xvi, 291 pp. One hundred and fourteen coloured illustrations. 8vo, full gilt crushed blue-green morocco with an inset in leather depicting the mounted Vicar on the front panel; by Bayntun. A.e.g. Original pictorial cloth covers and spine bound in. Slight sunning to spine; a handsome fine binding.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.