8vo. xxxiv, [2], 305pp, [7]. With a frontispiece and a plethora of illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. Three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear, cocked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting.

The second Macmillan edition, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, of Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith's (1730-1774) most renowned work. First published in 1766, The Vicar of Wakefield would become one of the defining novels of the eighteenth-century. Sadly the author was to profit little from the sensational success of the work, as Samuel Johnson had sold the rights for £60 in order to relieve Goldsmith from the pursuit of debtors.