RACKHAM'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, IN THE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE PICTORIAL BINDING

(RACKHAM, Arthur) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Company, (1929). Quarto, original full olive morocco with white, blue, rose and black morocco onlays on pictorial front board, top edge gilt, uncut. $1200.

First trade edition of Rackham’s illustrated gift edition of Goldsmith's classic, with 12 full-page color illustrations, in the publisher's deluxe pictorial morocco binding.

"Rackham's imaginative eye saw all forms with the eyes of childhood and created a world that was half reassuring and half frightening" (Houfe, 268). With 12 full-page illustrations in color, 22 drawings in black and white, and gray and white pictorial endpapers, all "happily fresh and free of mannerisms" (Hodnett, 234). Simultaneous with the trade edition was a signed/limited edition of 775 copies. Without the scarce publisher's box. Latimore & Haskell, 65. Riall, 170. Gift inscription.

Fine condition.