The vicar of Wakefield
By: by Oliver Goldsmith ; with twenty-five coloured illustrations by C.E. Brock
Contributors: Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938, illustrator; Chivers, Cedric, binder; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Series: The series of English idylls; Series of English idylls
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.; E.P. Dutton & Co.
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Parochial Vicars; Fiction; Families; Conduct of life; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Details the romantic intrigues in the family of a country vicar in eighteenth-century England.
Notes: Series statement from half-title.

Three-color halftones: title page, frontispiece, plates; dated 1904.

"Most of the three-colour blocks for this book have been made by the Graphic Photo-Engraving Co., London"--Page xii.

Frontispiece has guardsheet.

Includes table of contents, list of illustrations.

NUC pre-1956, 204:667

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full parchment, with gilt borders on upper and lower covers; decorative design in colored ink on upper cover with title at center of gilt medallion; smooth gilt spine with similar design as upper cover; top edge of text gilt; decorated endpapers; turn-ins with gilt borders; "Bound by Cedric Chivers for Brentano's" stamped on upper flyleaf.