The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Harrap, 1929. First Edition, Limited Issue. London: Harrap, 1929. Pp 231, uncut. Publisher’s full vellum boards with gilt titling and ruling to the upper cover and spine, which also displays an additional decoration. Ownership name verso endpaper, a nice bright copy overall.

One of 575 Numbered Copies Signed by the Illustrator, Arthur Rackham, on the limitation page

Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield has enjoyed countless editions since its first publication in 1766, but the 1929 Harrap edition—illustrated by Arthur Rackham—is one of the most desirable twentieth‑century interpretations of the novel. It represents a late but confident moment in Rackham’s career, produced when his style had fully matured into the atmospheric, delicate, and slightly whimsical mode that made him one of the great illustrators of the Golden Age of British book illustration.