1929 The Vicar of Wakefield

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first trade edition thus of this work. 

Containing a frontispiece and eleven further plates, all colourfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 

Collated and complete. 

During the ‘Golden Age’ of British book illustration Rackham was one of its leading artists. Many of the works he illustrated were published in a De Luxe limited edition in addition to a smaller trade edition. This is a trade edition of Oliver Goldsmith's works. Stylistically, Rackham’s illustrations reflected pen and India ink drawings. He used expressive line paired with a subtle use of watercolour to create his beautiful images.

The Vicar of Wakefield is often referred to as a fictitious memoir novel. It contains several literary genres within its novel structure such as poems, histories and sermons.

Written by Oliver Goldsmith, an eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish playwright and author. The Vicar of Wakefield is his most well-known work by far.