Oliver Goldsmith; John Foster — The Vicar of Wakefield

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1903. Cloth. A copiously illustrated edition of this popular novel by Oliver Goldsmith, in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was written by the renowned Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith between 1761 to 1762, and was first published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read eighteenth century novels among Victorians. With an introduction by Joseph Grego, and a prefatory essay by the renowned English essayist John Foster, reprinted from Foster's earlier work 'The Life and Times of Goldsmith' (1848). With thirteen coloured facsimile reproduction plates of the original drawings by the renowned English watercolour-painter John Massey Wright, each with a protective tissue guard. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent, with minor rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to head and tail of spine. Slight offsetting to endpaper. Frontispiece plate partially detached to gutter. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with scattered spots to the occasional page. Heavier scattered spotting to first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: John Massey Wright. Very Good .