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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[GOLDSMITH, OLIVER.] The Vicar of Wakefield. [4], 188; [4], 188 pages. 2 volumes. 12mo, 160x94 mm, navy levant gilt by Riviere & Son; contents toned with occasional light soiling, later bibliographical notes in pencil on Volume 1 front pastedown; cloth dust jackets; morocco folding case. Bookplates of August F. Langbein; early 19th-century signature and bookplate of J. Henry Shorthouse, Lansdowne, Edgbaston in Volume 1; notarized signed inscription by Eugene Field II dated 1929 at end of Volume 2 stating that the book belonged to his father. London [i. e., Cork: Eugene Swiney?]: Printed in the Year 1766
Scarce piracy printed the same year as the original edition. ESTC describes it as a press variant of the edition with the Cork imprint of Eugene Swiney; Scott considered it a London production. ESTC T146179; Scott, pages 179-80 ("this London unauthorized edition is of excessive rarity").
