The Vicar of Wakefield.
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines": Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
Item Number: 128157
London and New York: Macmillan & Co, 1890.
Nineteenth century printing of one of the most popular and widely read Victorian novels. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with a preface by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. A beautiful example.
The Vicar of Wakefield has long charmed readers "in part due to the imaginative glow that Goldsmith so effortlessly casts over the action and to his flexible and easy style" (Baugh).
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