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Auction #133 begins on 20 Aug 2026

Goldsmith (Oliver)

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD (Limited edition signed by Arthur Rackham)

By Oliver Goldsmith, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Published: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, London, Bombay, Sydney, 1929

Edition: Limited edition

Reserve: $250

Approximately:

Estimate: $300/350

Bidding opens: 20 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 27 Aug 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Limited Edition: 231 pages, bound in full vellum with gold lettering and ruling on the upper cover and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, top edge gilt other edges uncut, twelve full-page illustrations in colour and twenty-two drawings in black and white, pictorial endpapers in grey and white, book plate on the verso of the front free endpaper. The vellum is little soiled, top corners lightly bumped, the half title and colophon leaf is foxed, the uncut page edges are browned but otherwise the contents are clean and crisp, a very good copy.

The limitation reads: Edition limited to Five Hundred and Seventy-five copies for England and Two Hundred copies for the United States, of which this is No. 250 of the English issue. Signed by Arthur Rackham

Latimor (Sarah Briggs) & Haskell (Grace Clark) Arthur Rackham, A Bibliography, (1936, reprinted Florida 1971), page 65

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (270 x 205 mm)


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