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Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, 1843.

Price: US$8.38 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1843. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to rear pastedown. Notable marks to front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate creasing to gutter. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Front board is loose but still attached. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy crushing to spine ends. Moderate bumping to corners. Rip to spine end. Distinctive black markings to front and rear boards. Water staining to rear board. Notable tanning to spine. Top edge is painted grey.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Goldsmith, Oliver.. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.. John van Voorst, 1843.

Price: US$40.61 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1843. John van Voorst. Hard Cover. Book- Good, leather bound, gilt titles on spine, brown boards, front board detached, bevelled edges, a.e.g. 8.5x6. 306pp. 32 b/w engravings by William Mulready. A renowned novel which follows the changing fortunes and romances of Dr Primrose, his wife Deborah and their six children as they are misled, cheated and even brought to gaol.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. MULREADY, William (illus.). The Vicar of Wakefield.. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: xv, 306 pp. With Thirty-two Illustrations by William Mulready. 8vo, full calf; gilt spine; a.e.g. Rubbed and re-colored along the joints; other slight use to the binding; tight and sound.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Goldsmith Oliver.:. The Vicar of Wakefield.. London John Van Voorst First Edition, 1843.

Price: US$77.97 + shipping

Description: Sm.4to. xv, 306pp plus publishers adverts. With thirty two illustrations by William Muklready R.A. In publisher's brick red cloth decorated in blind with gilt titles to spine. Yellow end papers. Some areas of slight discolouration to covers but generally a very good copy.

Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom

Oliver GOLDSMITH. The Vicar of Wakefield: [a novel]. With thirty-two illustrations, by William Mulready, R.A.. London: John Van Voorst, 1843.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Dark green morocco by Riviere, gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Upper cover very mildly scratched, but a lush binding; some mild spotting in text. First published in 1766 (the novel went through more than 20 editions by 1800): this copy extra-illustrated (as well as Mulready's nice in-text engravings, here on their first outing) with 19 plates, apparently proofs, after Stothard, Cruikshank and others; 6pp. of publisher s advertisements at end. Inscribed in pencil by her parents-in-law to Phillida Gili, "Very much love - & happy BIRTHDAY! [signed] Joan [Gili] & [signed] Elizabeth 29.11.90".

Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom

Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Oliver Goldsmith's famous novel, first thus with illustrations by William Mulready. One of the most popular novels among Victorians, The Vicar of Wakefield was originally published in 1766, and concerns family endurance, and the drama surrounding the Primrose family, who live an idyllic country life until they loose finances and their daughter is abducted. A comedic novel told with much sentiment.First edition to feature illustrations in text by William Mulready, Irish genre painting known for his illustrations of rural scenes.Written by Oliver Goldsmith, popular Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, and poet in the Georgian era. This is his most well known work, along with the pastoral poem 'The Deserted Village' and his play 'The Good Natur'd Man.' Bound without publisher's advertisements to the rear in a half calf binding signed I. Arrowsmith of Bristol. In half calf binding over marbled boards, new marbled endpapers. Externally sound with some shelf wear, joints rubbed, front joint starting, boards and spine rubbed to extremities, only lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Illustrated throughout. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 306pp. Bound into 3/4 brown leather with marble boards and endpapers. Gilt top foredge. With 32 engraved illustrations by William Mulready. Some rubbing to bottom of boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper.

Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$112.52 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Book Condition: Very Good, fine/custom binding, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, 32 illustrations by William Mulready, original ribbon, spine has 5 raised bands between gilt filigree blind stamp and title with gilt date on tail, top edge gilt, binding tight, Murrell Binder stamp on front free end, S&J Bentley, Wilson & Fley printer stamp on preliminary blank, gently worn edges, scuffs on leather, small gift inscription on preliminary blank, light pencil marks on front free end, very few light marks scattered on pages, 306 pp., 6.25 X 8.5 inches. * Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer. * NOAMZ

Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. JOHN VAN VOORST, LONDON, 1843.

Price: US$129.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Attractive full polished calf binding. Boards lightly rubbed and lightly marked, all edges gilt, ink and pencil inscriptions to rear of front free endpaper, light foxing to some pages, otherwise clean throughout. Good to very good.

Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. The vicar of Wakefield . with thirty-two illustrations by William Mulready, R. A.. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$156.25 + shipping

Description: First Mulready edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 306; 32 wood-engraved illustrations; later full black morocco by Tuckett, "binder to the Queen," covers with blindstamped borders and panel, fleurons in the corners, gilt lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g.; some minor rubbing, but generally a very good copy.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefiled. John van Voorst. Paternoster Row, London, 1843.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Mulready, William. 32 illustrations by William Mulready. xv, [i], 306, [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full polished tan calf, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Riviere. VG 32 illustrations by William Mulready. xv, [i], 306, [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. With Thirty-Two Illustrations By William Mulready, R. A.. John Van Voost, Paternoster Row., London, 1843.

Price: US$200.47 + shipping

Description: Text in Englisch. First Edition to appear with engravings by Mulready. Gold geprägter, ornamental dekorierter Einband (echte Buchbinderarbeit von Hayday!). Ebenfalls gold geprägte, sehr dekorative Urne mit mythologischen Darstellungen auf Buchdeckel! Minimale Stoßspuren an den Kanten. Rundum Goldschnitt, 5 Bünde (siehe Foto). 2,5 cm breiter Streifen aus Vorsatz- und fliegendem Blatt sauber herausgeschnitten. Buchblock tadellos. XV, 306 Seiten. 32 Illustrationen von William Mulready. Verlagswerbung am Ende. Handgeschriebene Widmung aus dem Jahr 1852 und blindgeprägter Stempel der Buchhandlung auf dem Vorsatzblatt. Ein wunderbarer Band in sehr gutem Zustand. +++ Lavishly gilded board panels. Binding (by Hayday) adorned with floral ornaments. Gilded urns with mythological patterns on front and backcover (see picture). Boards gilt/dentelles, an exquisite copy, beautifully illustrated by William Mulready. +++ 15 x 21 cm, 0,8 kg. +++ Stichwörter/Keywords: Bibliophilie Englische Literatur english literature Klassiker Bookbinding Buchbinderarbeit Gewicht in Gramm: 800 Erste Auflage Dieser Ausgabe Gold Geprägter Ledereinband Erfreulich Gut

Seller: Antiquariat Clement, Bonn, Germany

Oliver Goldsmith - FINE BINDING. The Vicar Of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$233.92 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Specially bound in leather with marbled sides, and a gilt top edge to the text block. Gilt titling, laid endpapers, with many illustrations by William Mulready, RA. A beautiful heirloom standard binding, good and sturdy and strong. The paper has embrowned, as can be seen in the photographs, but this is a most attractive individual binding of superb quality. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng

Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$253.41 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A nicely bound illustrated edition of one of the most popular novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 'The Vicar of Wakefield'. 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was one of the most popular and widely read novels upon its publication and into the Victorian era. The novel follows the fall and rise of the Primrose family, who are presided over by the benevolent narrator, the Vicar.Illustrated with thirty-two in-text engravings.Collated, complete.Written by Oliver Goldsmith, an Irish novelist who is best known for this novel, though also for his pastoral poem 'The Deserted Village', and the plays 'The Good-Natur'd Man' and 'She Stoops to Conquer'. Illustrated by William Mulready.Bookplate of the bibliophile and book collector Eric Quayle to the front paste down. His collection was impressive, totalling 16,000 volumes when he died.Bookplate of Astley Terry to the front paste down. In a full morocco binding with decorative gilt. Externally, smart. A little rubbing to the spine. Small cracks to the head and tail of the joints. A little rubbing and a few marks to the boards. Very minor bumping to the extremities. Front hinge is starting but firm. Two bookplates to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with some spots only to the endpapers. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$278.43 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Ennis Artist- First thus, small 4to. p.p. 306. 32 fine plates by Ennis born William Mulready. Full vellum binding by Tepper. Raised bands, gilt décor spine. A.E.G. B.P.

Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland

The Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith, Oliver. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$349.38 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Ornately decorated borders of gilt to russet Morocco boards decorated at edges. Raised bands and segments gilt decorated on faded spine.Covers extensively gilt bordered. Corners bumped, Gilt page edges, marbled endpapers, bookplate, minor foxing to preliminary pages and final pages. Back cover slightly discoloured and rubbed. xv + 306pp. b & w illus. Thirty Two illustrationss by William Mulready engraved by John THOMPSON

Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, Australia

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield; With Thirty-Two Illustrations, By William Mulready, R.A.. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, xv, [1], 306pp. Full red morocco, title in gilt on spine, raised bands with gilt-ruled compartments. Trace of wear to spine, almost not worth noting. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle edges. Complete with 32 illustrations by Mulready. Bookplate of E.P. Gangewere, President of the Reading Railroad, affixed to front pastedown endpaper. A fine example.

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: With 32 text engravings. Full red morocco, boards gilt-ruled, gilt edges and dentelles, with white and gold patterned end-papers; an exquisite copy from the library of James Anderson Rose (see below) with his armorial bookplate. ENGRAVINGS BY WILLIAM MULREADY. The first edition to appear with the engravings by Mulready. "Embellishments of English books have usually been characterized by those powers of art which appeal more particularly to the eye. The object aimed at in this attempt to illustrate the most popular of Goldsmith's works is, that character and composition may, with the aid of drawing, appeal directly to the understanding. It is presumed that the most distinguished talent of British Art applicable to this purpose has been obtained." Mulready's brilliance as an artist was recognized at an early age, having been accepted to the Royal Academy School at the age of 14. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy at the age of 31, and was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for paintings that he sent the Paris International Exhibition. He was launched into certain fame as a book illustrator after his work in The Vicar of Wakefield. Provenance: Rose (1819-90) was a solicitor, as well as a major print collector, confidant, and friend of artists, including James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He owned The Sleeper and Sleeping woman and had a magnificent collection of James Whistler's etchings. NSTC, I&II, 2M40682.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

Oliver Goldsmith. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. John Van Voorst, 1843.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BOUND BY ROOT & SONS LONDON IN FULL CRIMSON MOROCCO, GILT PANELING TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING BINDING WITH SLIPCASE. BRIGHT GILT TURN ENDS, BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE REMARKABLY BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS AND NO FOXING. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM MULREADY & 24 FULL PAGE COLOR PLATES BY ROWLANDSON. FIRST EDITION THUS, ORIGINAL CLOTH COVERS BOUND IN. 306 PAGES, BOOK MEASURES 8.5"x6.5". SCARCE COPY IN SUPERB CONDITION, YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK!

Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$2200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: With 32 engraved illustrations by William Mulready. xvi, 306, plus 6 pages of ads. Thick 8vo, beautifully bound by R.R. Donnelley & Sons in full deep green morocco; unique floral gilt-stamped covers and spine; inner dentelles; decorative floral silk endpapers and doublures, all edges gilt. Housed in a simple green felt-lined cloth slipcase. London: John Van Voorst, 1843. Spine is evenly darkened to brown, otherwise a fine copy in a handsome binding.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: With 32 engraved illustrations by William Mulready. Large,thick 8vo, beautifully bound by De Sauty in full deep green morocco; elaborately gilt covers and spine; inner dentelles; all edges gilt. London: John Van Voorst, 1843. In addition to the illustrations by Mulready, this book is extra-illustrated with 15 heliogravures by E. Nisbet and 170 neatly mounted illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A magnificent copy of this beloved 18th century novel.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

COSWAY-STYLE BINDING; RIVIÈRE & SON; GOLDSMITH, Oliver; MULREADY, William, illustrator. Vicar of Wakefield, The. London: John Van Voorst, 1843, 1843.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Description: Goldsmith Goes Cosway-Style The Vicar Bound By Rivière & Son [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. With thirty-two illustrations, by William Mulready, R.A. London: John Van Voorst, 1843. First Mulready-illustrated edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/2 in; 208 x 140 mm). xv, [1], 306 pp. Thirty-two black and white drawings as headpieces. Beautifully bound ca. 1930 by Rivière & Son, (stamp-signed) in full dark red crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments. Upper board with wide gilt-tooled frame enclosing a central gilt-decorated oval with an original miniature portrait of Goldsmith in watercolor under glass. Rear board with gilt rolled borders and corner piece. Engraved (unidentified) armorial bookplate pasted onto front doublure. Bookplate of L.B. Rossbach to front free-endpaper verso. Gilt decorated turn-ins. Green moiré silk endleaves. All edges gilt. A fine example housed in the original faux lizard, leather edged slipcase. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes." The Vicar of Wakefield was written 1761-1762, and published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels during the Victorian era, referred to 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.

COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. GOLDSMITH, Oliver.. The Vicar of Wakefield.. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.

Price: US$8500.00 + shipping

Description: xv, 306 pp. With Thirty-two Illustrations by William Mulready. 8vo, full light brown crushed levant morocco Cosway-style binding signed by Riviere & Sons. The front cover features an oval miniature portrait of Goldsmith under glass, set within a quatrefoil panel, the whole elaborately tooled in gold. A.e.g. Moire silk ensheets; gilt turn-ins. Preserved in the original morocco-edged marbled slipcase. Very fine; entirely unrestored.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.