1890 The Vicar of Wakefield

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. This humorous and satirical work was one of the most widely read eighteenth century novels among Victorians, following the lives of the Primrose family through bankruptcy. Written by Oliver Goldsmith, an Anglo-Irish novelist, dramatist, and poet. With a preface by Henry Austin Dobson, an English poet and essayist. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, an Irish Illustrator best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors including Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and J. M. Barrie.