Search Results: The Vicar Of Wakefield a Tale In Two Volumes By … by Oliver Goldsmith

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-06-10. Paperback. Good.

London: Willoughby and Co, 1841. Book. Illus. by George Dorrington. Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 215mm Tall, 8vo. xxviii, 252 pages. Illustrated with two hundred engravings by George Dorrington. 'Prefatory memoir of the author by G. Moir Bussey'. Loss to top of spine and small splits at joint of spine..

London: Thomas Kelly, 1817. Hardcover. Good. Omnibus of 5 literary works bound in one book. The Sisters or the History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson entrusted to a false friend by the Rev. Dr. Dodd, 196pp. Zadig or The Book of Fate, an oriental history, translated from the French of M. De Voltaire, 59pp. The Vicar of Wakefield, A Tale by Oliver Goldsmith, 123pp. The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story translated by W. Marshall Gent from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the church of St. Nicholas at Otranto, 73pp. The last work being The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca: being the substance of his examination before the fathers of the inquisition, at Bologna in Italy: giving an Account of an Unknown Country in teh midst of the Deserts of Africa. Copied from the original manuscript in St Mark's Library at Venice with Critical notes by the learned Signor Rhedi. Translated from the Italian, 141pp. Hardback, one quarter leather with brown leather to spine and corners. Marbled… Read More

Airmont, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint Ed.. Set of 68 paperback volumes in the Airmont Classics series. Most volumes in very good condition with slight over all wear, some volumes have price labels on front covers, prices written on first page, bookstore stamps or inside of covers yellowed. Four volumes, as noted below, are in good condition due to over all wear. Published between 1962 and 1969. Includes the following titles: Ben-Hur by Wallace, Michael Strogoff, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Round the Moon, The Mysterious Island (over all wear), Master of the World by Verne, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, The Ambassadors, The Turn of the Screw by James, Men of Iron by Pyle, Master Skylark by Bennett, The House of the Seven Gable, (missing title page), A Wonder Book, Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Oliver Twist, the Mystery of Edwin Drood, Great… Read More

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

Full tan calf with gilt banding, flower emblem and title on the spine. . First Edition
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 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 is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November 1728. The location of his birthplace is also uncertain. He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was the Anglican curate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of his maternal grandparents, at the Smith Hill House near Elphin in County Roscommon, where his grandfather… Read More

Glocester, Printed and Sold by D. Walker...; Sold also by C. Mutlow...., London. 1809. 2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo, 158 x 98 mms., pp. [iv], 224, including half-title, with continuous pagination throughout the two volumes, woodcut vignette on general title-page, woodcut vignettes on separate title-pages for each volume, 4 full-page woodcuts in text, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, morocco label, marbled boards (rubbed); 6 leaves slightly sprung with fore-margins slightly frayed, edges worn. Bewick's woodcuts for this edition of The Vicar of Wakefield were first published in 1798, and the same woodcuts appeared in later editions. Uncommon. The only copy of this Glocester 1809 imprint that I have been able to find is in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The BL has Wellington and London, 1809, imprints, but apparently not this Glocester imprint. There was also an edition published in Baltimore in 1809

Perth: R. Morison Junior, 1792. Leather. Good Only. 7" by 4.5". None. A collection of The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. The set consists of volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 and is missing volume 3. Volume I contains: The Author's Life and his Essays, embellished with Copperplates. Volume 2 contains: All his Poetical Works, Life of Lord Bolingbroke, and Life of Dr Parnell. Volume 2 also contains a fold-out illustration to the front of the volume. Volume 4 contains: First of the Citizen of the World. Volume 5 contains: Second of the Citizen of the World. Volume 6 contains: The Good Natur'd Man, and She Stoops to Conquer. Volume 7 contains: Poems for Young Ladies. Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an 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… Read More

THE FIRST AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION
GOLDSMITH, [Oliver]. [ANDERSON, Alexander, illustrator]. The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. By Dr. Goldsmith. Two volumes in one. 12mo, contemporary tree calf (rebacked, corners rubbed), old leather label, pp. 252 + 4 wood engraved plates by Anderson (including frontispiece). New-York: Printed by James Oram for Christian Brown, 1803. First American illustrated edition; first New York edition in any form. Excellent copy. Hamilton, on page xxxiii in his preface to vol. 1, states that these cuts were some of the better known of Anderson's work. Reprinted twice more by Oram in 1807. Oval hand decorated early bookplate of one "Elen Thompson", and bookseller's label on free half of front endpaper advertising "Lottery Tickets Sold at the Book Store of Thomas & Whipple, Market Square, Newburyport." OCLC locates 7 copies (NYPL; UCLA; Yale; AAS; Harvard; Princeton; Rutgers). Very… Read More

London, Edinburgh, and Dublin: A. Fullerton and Co., c. 1854. A very good example. Plates are generally clean and crisp. . Binding: Contemporary half calf with green cloth boards. Spine in five compartments of gilt decorated raised bands. Black calf labels with gilt title on two. , Notes: Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote of the book: "Goldsmith is now writing a Natural History, and he will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale". Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 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). Goldsmith was described by contemporaries a congenial but impetuous and disorganised personality who once planned to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his ship.Thomas De Quincey wrote of him 'All the motion of Goldsmith's nature moved in the direction of… Read More

London, Edinburgh, and Dublin: A. Fullerton and Co.: , c.1847. . A very good example. Plates are generally clean and crisp.. Binding: Contemporary full calf, rebacked expertly saving the original spine. Spine in six compartments with extensive blind tooling. Gilt title on 2 on contemporary green calf label. Marbled pages on all sides, marbled free and glued end papers. , Notes: Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote of the book: "Goldsmith is now writing a Natural History, and he will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale". Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 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). Goldsmith was described by contemporaries a congenial but impetuous and disorganised personality who once planned to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his… Read More

2 volumes bound in one, 8vo, period calf coated in later thick brown paint, gilt lettered spine label, 180 pp. Spine ends chipped, hinges very tender, corners bumped, binding worn, group of pages off-centered, dampstains, foxing, early signatures and notations. Overall fair to good. First published in 1766, the present volume is considered the first obtainable American edition. However, there was an earlier American edition published in 1767.A literary classic that tells the tale of Dr. Primrose and his family. Considered a novel that presents the belief in the innate goodness of people, it can also be seen as satire.

Corke: Printed for Eugene Swiney, 1766 Pirated Corke edition. Bound in contemporary full brown calf, with five raised bands to the spine, contrasting red calf label to the spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, board edges tooled in blind. Very good, with some wear to the extremities, light rubbing to the boards and spine, minor spotting to the fore edge, former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, some minor creasing to the otherwise bright pages. Overall, a tight and unsophisticated copy. Housed in a custom quarter morocco red slipcase with a matching chemise. This pirated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield was published in the same year as the first authorized edition that consisted of two volumes printed by R. Collins in London. The pirated Corke edition was also issued in two volumes; in the case of this copy, a previous owner had his binder combine the two parts into a single volume. The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional… Read More

London: F. Newbery, 1776. 2nd. h/b. Good, 2nd edition in 2 volumes, original full brown calf-bound (some markings and scratches), 5-banded spine (both very worn, multiple creasemarks, chips on vol 1), vol 2 has gilt-spine titling just visible; text block binding reasonable and intact, but stitching visible in multiple places. Occasional creases but pages crisp and very clear for age of books.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional Vicar of Wakefield. Specifically, it follows the Primrose family, humble and moral in spite of its material wealth and indicative of Goldsmith's idealization of pastoral life, after they fall into poverty and subsequent dilemmas as a result, not of their own misdeeds, but of the corrupt and depraved individuals around them. One of the most highly regarded and widely read books of the eighteenth century, The Vicar of Wakefield is mentioned in several notable subsequent publications,… Read More