The Vicar of Wakefield
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, Inc., 1929.
Deluxe edition limited to 775 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, of which 575 were for sale in England and 200 for the United States; this is copy number 139 of the latter. Bound in publisher's full white vellum with gold lettering on the cover and spine, top edge gilt; with twelve full-page illustrations in color and twenty-two drawings in black and white, pictorial endpapers in gray and white. Housed in the original lidded card box. Uneven offsetting at rear board else Fine. Soiling and rubbing to box with manuscript description on edge of lid. A prepossessing production of the classic 18th century novel, further enhanced by Rackham's dreamlike pen and ink illustrations. Latimore & Haskell p. 65. Item #140948045
Price: $1,750