GOLDSMITH, OLIVER — The Vicar of Wakefield

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. 1st thus. Including John Forster's essay on the story, and containing thirteen facsimile illustrations in colour by John Massey Wright, a pupil of Thomas Stothard. 4to (278 x 210mm). Pp xli + 260 + frontis and 12 tissue-protected colour plates. Cream cloth bevelled boards decoratively stamped in gilt and green on the spine and upper panel. Limited edition - no 115 of an edition of 250. Signed by the publisher. TEG other edges untrimmed. Owner's signature on ffe. Cloth a little soiled else Very Good without dust-jacket. Very Good .