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Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John van Voorst, 1855.
Price: US$6.51 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1855. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to boards. Textblock is shaky.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Description: 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches), 306-pages plus advertisements. Contemporary full bevelled grained calf, spine blocked in black and gilt letteed drect, all edges gilt. 4-inch crack to lower joint but holding well.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
GOLDSMITH Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. London: John Van Voorst, 1855, 1855.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Contemporary half tan calf, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, (rebacked with part of original spine neatly relaid). Pp. xv + 306, illus with b&w drawings by William Mulready (previous owner's neat inscription on front prelim; endpapers and prelims lightly spotted).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. John Van Voorst, London, 1855.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: 306, [vi reviews/ads]. 32 line illustrations from William Mulready appearing now for the first time. Blue cloth with a fine gilt illustrated binding by Henry Shaw.Trifle rubbed to the head and foot of the spine but an attractive unfaded copy. Front and spine heavily gilt decorated with matching in the blind to the rear. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1855.
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely bound copy of this popular novel from Oliver Goldsmith, with illustrations. Illustrated with thirty-two images. Collated complete. A novel widely read by Victorians, following Vicar Charles Primrose, who lives in an idyllic country parish with his family. On the evening of his son's wedding to wealthy Arabella, the Vicar loses all his money through the bankruptcy of his merchant investor who leaves town abruptly. Written by Oliver Goldsmith, an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for this work. Illustrated by William Mulready, an Irish painter. In the original blue cloth binding with gilt decoration. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Pencil inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xv, 306 pp. With Thirty-two Illustrations by William Mulready; this copy has been extra-illustrated with ten additional engraved plates. 8vo, full crushed gilt-ruled morocco; spine with five raised bands; t.e.g., by Popelin. A few minor scuffs to the leather; clean, tight and sound in a handsome binding.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1855.
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Description: A lovely bound copy of the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. A lovely bound copy of the Vicar of Wakefield.The Vicar of Wakefield was first published in 1766 and was one of the most popular and widely read novels of the 18th Century. Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet who is best known for this novel.With thirty-two in-text illustrations by William Mulready.Collated, complete.With a bookplate for Francis Frederick Fox to the front pastedown and a tipped in handwritten note to the half title page from a Henry Cole.With six pages of adverts to the rear. In the original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light fading to the spine and bumping to the head of the spine. With a bookplate for Francis Frederick Fox to the front pastedown and a tipped in handwritten note to the half title page from a Henry Cole.Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, 1855.
Price: US$154.34 + shipping
Description: 8vo, editor's blue cloth richly gilted, edges gilted, John Van Voorst, London, 1855, 306 pp. Charming editor's cloth. Good (binding slightly rubbed) Langue: Anglais
Seller: Librairie du Cardinal, GRADIGNAN, France
Goldsmith, Oliver. Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1855.
Price: US$213.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOUND BY RIVIERE & SONS. Original navy blue half calf with gilt titles. Spine: five raised ribs, gilt decorative design & trim; gilt trim to boards margins and decorative trim design to inside boards edges, Head edge still shiny gilt with faint rubbing. Fore & bottom edge with light age browning and faint few only foxing. Marbled eps. Foxing to ffeps & rfeps. Just a few faint foxing to a few only pages margins otherwise clean content. Illustrated. Binding is VG. 306p
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. John Van Voorst, London, 1855.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 32 engraved illustrations by William Mulready, 306pp., 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco, gilt-stamped raised bands, t.e.g. London: John Van Voorst, 1855. Fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.