The Vicar of Wakefield. A tale by Goldsmith, Dr. Oliver - 1828

London: John Sharpe, 1819 12mo. original full calf gilt, raised bands, spine label (rubbed & bumped, hinges cracking but secure (repaired), prev. owner's name to blank prelim., some spotting and staining); pp. 194, with engraved title page vignette and 4 engraved plates. A very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG-. Illus. by Richard Westall.

London, Manchester, Liverpool, & Hull: Clarke and Co., Jones, Rawson and Rodford, Vernor and Hood, 1803. Although "The Vicar" is classic English literature, Ireland claims its author (1728-1774) as one of their own. Goldsmith's friend Samuel Johnson arranged for its initial publication, yielding sixty pounds to the destitute author. It became immensely popular as a "sentimental" novel, though Quercus tends to the Celtic view that it is rather exquisite satire. This is a lovely, small, early edition, in Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition. Full leather binding; gilt ruling on the spine, with a red spine label. Clean text; 224 pages. The text is exceptionally bright and supple. There is a contemporary (1806) previous-owner signature at the top of the Title Page. Mild bumping; the smooth calf remains nicely polished. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Reprint.. Full-Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, [c.1792-93]. 12mo. This is a volume of the Novelist's Magazine, so titled on the spine, collecting several novels. Full calf, titled in gilt on the spine; the front cover and first few leaves lacking, considerable chipping to edges, some folded page corners, scattered foxing, a tear across the first text leaf of Rasselas, but internally quite clean and very good otherwise. This volume contains, in this order: Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield (2 volumes, 174 pages, the two volumes consecutively paged). It lacks the frontispiece and title page of volume 1, however the frontispiece and title page of volume 2 are present. / Laurence Sterne: Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy, By Mr. Yorick. A New Edition. Frontispiece and one engraving in the text. 111 pages. / Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. A New Edition. Frontispiece. 105 pages. / John Hawkesworth: Almoran and Hamet: An Oriental Tale. In Two Volumes. Frontispiece and title page… Read More

Gainsborough: Stereotyped for, and printed and sold by, Henry Mozley, 1812. [4], 199pp, [1]. With eight plates. Later gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, brown cloth boards. Lightly rubbed and marked. Bookplate of Alfred Jerome Brown to FEP, very occasional light spotting. A provincially published, stereotyped edition, of Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith's (1728?-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. . Stereotype edition. 12mo.