The vicar of Wakefield
Subtitle: a tale
By: by Doctor Goldsmith ; illustrated with twenty-four designs, by Thomas Rowlandson
Contributors: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, illustrator; Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher; William Clowes and Sons
Publisher: Published by R. Ackermann, at the Repository of Arts, 101, Strand
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Parochial Vicars; Fiction; Families of clergy; Conduct of life; Social life and customs; Vicaires paroissiaux; Romans, nouvelles; Morale pratique; Mœurs et coutumes; Manners and customs
Description: Details the romantic intrigues in the family of a country vicar in eighteenth century England.
Notes: "Printed by W. Clowes."

Hand-colored etchings: frontispiece and plates dated May, 1817.

"Memoirs of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.": pages [5]-8 preceding text.

Publisher's introduction follows title page.

Provenance: From the Vicar of Wakefield Collection presented to the New York Academy of Medicine in memory of Linsly R. Williams by his daughter, Lesta Ford Clay, 1942 (bookplate).

Binding: full polished brown levant, gold tooled, decorated spine stamped in gold, green paper pastedown and free endpapers, all gold edges.

Grego, J. Rowlandson, v. 2, p. 356-359

Temple Scott, 'Oliver Goldsmith' 1928, p. 183