Oliver Goldsmith Text (11 results)

Heritage Ills. Cl. Red cl.w.black design & gilt lettering on black on bkstrip. Color frontis & 7 color plates, Line drawings chapter headings. Color Frontis & Plates & Line Drawing (illustrator).

Hard. Condition: Good. Undated. c.1895. Good. Publishers terracotta cloth, decoratively blocked in black and gilt. Hinges cracked. First few leaves dog-eared. A thumbed but attractive copy. 369pp. Lavishly illustrated from wonderful steel engravings, full page and within text throughout. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st illustrated edition, thus. B&W illustrations. Dark blue cloth binding lavishly embellished with gilt lettering & decorations; handsomely illustrated; all edges gilt. Condition: slight rubbing to spine ends; inked gift inscription on 1st free endpaper; else in VG+ condition. 204 pages. …

Paperback. Condition: G+. Listed 15th out of 16 unnumbered titles on rear cover. Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Large folio in full, tan leather binding. Full page plates and illustrations in text. Condition: spine strip missing; front cover detached but present; considerable wear, rubbing & staining to covers; although binding is poor, internally, the book is in good+ to very good condition. 177 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Full title: Whittaker's improved edition of Pinnock's Goldsmith's History of Rome, for the use of schools; revised, corrected and very considerably enlarged, by the addition of several new chapters and numerous notes; a short dictionary explaining every difficulty and fixing the proper sound and meaning of the words; questions for examination at the end of each section; and illustrative engravings. Much scarcer than the twin volume on Rome. Not dated but possibly the 1860s. Good condition for age. No highlighting or other notes. Engravings and the fold-out also in good condition. Book has been rebound, with title and edition number in gilt lettering (see image 2).…

FIRST OR EARLY REPRINT pre 1887, No. 15 in list of 16 on lower cover. 205 x 237 mm, 8 x 9¼ inches, limp card covers colour illustrated, 22 pages. 6 colour plates, line drawings throughout. Bookseller's small faint stamp on background near lower edge of upper cover, small name in top margin of upper cover, 2 mm (1/10") chip at head of spine, very little very faint foxing to title page, next 2 pages and last 3 pages. Very good copy. First published in 1885 there is no way of telling whether this copy is a first or not but the adverts do not list the edition which collects all 16 titles, published in 1887. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Number 457 of 500 copies and signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Thick quarto in green cloth binding. Contains 16 color plates and 48 B&W illustrations. Condition: binding soiled with spotting, bumped corners, fraying to lower half of outer rear hinge and darkening to spine label; endpapers are toned; slight scattered foxing; else a good copy. Pages: xvi, 347. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First American trade edition. Quarto (10 x 7 1/2"). 231, [1]pp. Original gray-blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on front cover and spine. Top of book block in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated half-title and title page. Color frontispiece. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With "The Vicar of Wakefield" of 1929. Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson, p.126). "The Vicar of Wakefield" is a novel by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century books. The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and "David Copperfield," Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Sarah Grand's "The Heavenly Twins," Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" and "Villette," Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" and in Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," as well as his "Dichtung und Wahrheit." (Wikipedia). For more information, see: Hudson, p.171. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65. Riall, p.170. This handsome book is splendidly illustrated throughout with 12 color plates and 22 b/w in-text illustrations. Binding overall very good-, interior has age toning , starting in very good- condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. All books outside UK sent airmail and all books tracked. PayPal accepted. First Edition thus. Original olive green cloth with gilt design. 4to size. Gilt top, uncut fore edge. Covers and spine marked and a little faded and spotting on rear. Illustrated by Edmund J Sullivan with 16 coloured plates with tissue guards and 48 full page black and white illustrations and many smaller drawings throughout text, all plates are present as listed. (illustrator).…

Priv.-HLwd. m. montiertem Rückenschild u. goldener Rückenprägung. 8°, 272 S., Abb. in Holzschnitt. Kanten etw. berieben, tlw. etw. stock- bzw. braunfleckig; Exlibris auf vorderem Innendeckel. EA. Exemplar von Emanuel Stickelberger (mit dessen Exlibris auf vorderem innendeckel). - Emanuel Stickelberger (geb. 1884, Alassio [IT], gest. 1962, St Gallen): «Kindheit in Locarno, verschiedene Handelsschulen. Ab 1900 Angestellter in einem Basler Chemiebetrieb. 1909 eröffnete Emanuel Stickelberger eigene chemische Firmen in Basel und Haltingen (heute ein Stadtteil von Weil am Rhein, Baden, D), die er 1926 für die Schriftstellerei aufgab. Stickelberger lebte in Basel, Uttwil und Wolfenschiessen. Ab 1932 präsidierte er den von ihm mitgründeten deutsch-schweizerischen PEN-Club, ab 1943 die Schweizerische Bibliophile Gesellschaft. Seine Werke orientierten sich am Stil Conrad Ferdinand Meyers. Er schrieb historische Romane über Huldrych Zwingli oder Arnold von Brescia. Nach 1945 geriet Stickelberger rasch in Vergessenheit. 1929 Dr. theol. h.c. Basel, 1957 Hebelpreis» (HLS).…