Vicar of Wakefield
by Goldsmith, (Oliver)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Bedford Park Chiswick: Caradoc Press, 1903. Full limp vellum, title in black on spine, yap boards, all edges uncut. 9" x 6.5". Pp. [iv]+212 (colophon), printed in red and black; etched frontis portrait, signed in pencil by artist, Harry George Webb. Limited, number 292 of 360 copies printed on Kelmscott paper. Republished from the text of the first edition by Harry George and Heba Dora Web (founders of Cardoc Press). The initials and ornaments designed and engraved and the whole printed and bound at the Caradoc Press. Vellum showing some light soiling, typical "waves" to limp vellum and attached pastedowns crinkled. Brick Row Bookshop label on front pastedown. Internally clean and bright. Remains a desirable copy of a scarce private press printing. Tomkinson 9; Ransom 9. Size: Octavo. Signed. Vellum. Very Good. Illus. by Harry George Webb. Private Press.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004301
- Title
- Vicar of Wakefield
- Author
- Goldsmith, (Oliver)
- Illustrator
- Harry George Webb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Caradoc Press
- Place of Publication
- Bedford Park Chiswick
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- HARRY GEORGE WEBB; CARADOC PRESS
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- Leather Bound Books;
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- Vellum
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- Spine
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