The Deserted Village

by Oliver Goldsmith

$2,250 · Offered by Argosy Book Store

Gloustershire: Essex House Press, 1904. Colored frontispiece and tailpiece by C.R. Ashbee. Initial letters hand-written in gold, red, blue and green throughout by Florence Kingsfordi 22 pages. Slim 8vo, full vellum, with embossed floral image on front cover; spine lettered in gilt. Campden, Gloucestershire: The Essex House Press, 1904 . Limited Edition. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown, else a very fine copy with none

• Binding: Leather

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