The Vicar of Wakefield.
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1930?] Stock Code: 113258
First US trade edition, first printing; inscribed neatly on the title page verso: "December 1930" - presumably the date of publication (which is not given by either bibliography).
Description
Small quarto. Original blue-grey cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket and the publisher's original box.
Illustrations
Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham.
Condition
An exemplary copy, just the slightest touch of foxing to the jacket and title page, and light signs of handling to the box.
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