THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe issue. Publisher's original vellum, elaborately decorated and with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. With a tissue guarded frontispiece, illustrated title page and a further 22 full page colour plates after watercolours by C. E. Brock. A near fine copy, the binding firm with a little bowing at the board ends, the vellum and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a neat ownership inscription (dated 1914) to the blank front free endpaper, and a little spotting to the prelims and text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout.

A beautifully illustrated edition of Goldsmith's classic of English literature, in the publisher's deluxe binding.