Description: The Vicar of Wakefield, A Tale by Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., Illustrated with Numerous Engravings with an Account of the Author’s Life and Writings by J. Aiken, M.D., D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1842, 284pp, half leather, 6 x 9.5”, 8vo Fair condition. Wear to front and rear boards. Tips are bumped and edges are scuffed. Hinges and joints are cracked. Spine coming loose at tail. Cracking and chipping to spine; still legible and dentelle mostly intact. Marbling to front and rear boards, pastedowns, and flyleafs. Frontispiece opposite title page. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Illustrated. Please see photos. Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 - 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist, and poet, noted 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 by some to have written the classic children’s tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). FORN-MSB-0324-TUB0011-JC264
Price: 75 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: half leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Region: North America
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1842
