Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Comprising the Vicar of Wakefield, Plays and Poems de Oliver Goldsmith - 2012-01-10

Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Noted. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and pastedown and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and heavy tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible sunning, water marks and rubbing. Moderate bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Heavier sunning to spine and book is forward leaning.

London: Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. First thus. Library of English Classics series. 1901. 8vo. Beautifully bound in a dark green half leatherwith raised bands and ornate gilt designs. Green and gilt marbled endpapers. 434 pp. TEG. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. NEAR FINE

London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. Hardcover. Good. Octavo blue Prize calf gilt on 5 raised bands spine compartments gilt also gilt dent. Blindtooled rev. (spine bit faded/sl.damage to head of spine/tips rubbed/sl.marked) All edges marbled to match the endpapers xii+434pp Prize label to pastedown from Sir John Deane's Grammar School Witton, Northwich.

Macmillan and Co., 1901. 1st edn. 8vo. Rebound by Bickers in gilt tooled half calf with marbled endpapers (small stain at bottom edge of upper board - otherwise VG). Pp. xii + 434 (previous owner's 1910 gilft inscription on front prelim).

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. Full Leather. Very Good. Octavo. Pp. xii, 434. Bound in contemporary full maroon calf, with a large central gilt crest of Rugby School with the motto "Orando Laborando" (by prayer and work), bordered by double gilt fillets framing a wavy blind roll and blind-stamped corner pieces, gilt-rolled edges. Spine elaborately gilt in compartments between raised bands, morocco lettering piece, gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Rugby presentation bookplate on pastedown, but overall a fine, well-preserved copy, with the spine gilt still bright and crisp. With a bibliographical introduction by Alfred W. Pollard, the present collection contains, besides "The Vicar of Wakefield", five plays, including "She Stoops to Conquer", and all of Goldsmith's miscellaneous poems.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.