Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
[GOLDSMITH, OLIVER.] The Vicar of Wakefield. [4], 214; [2], 223 pages. 2 volumes. 12mo, 19th-century calf gilt by Francis Bedford, dark blotches and shallow intersecting impressions left by twine(?) on Volume 1 front cover; contents unobtrusively washed with light residual dampstaining in lower inner corner of Volume 1 opening leaves; cloth slipcase. Salisbury: B. Collins for F. Newbery, London, 1766

Additional Details

first edition. With no catchword on page 213 in Volume 1; correct catchword "him" on page 39 and page 159 misnumbered 165 in Volume 2. Roscoe A200; Rothschild 1028; Scott, pages 173-75.