GOLDSMITH'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
With Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury,
And One Hundred and Fourteen Coloured Illustrations by V. A. Poirson (Illustrator of "Gulliver's Travels").
Saturday Review.
"Goldsmith's immortal tale is here delightfully illustrated in colour, and there is a prefatory memoir by Mr. George Saintsbury, full of delicate criticism and careful research. The illustrations are sketchy, fresh, merry, and in colours perfectly harmonious. Such a book is a boon to the cultivated reader of every age."
The Guardian.
"A new edition of the 'Vicar of Wakefield' naturally appears with every fresh variety of the arts of priming or illustration. M. Poirson showed so keen an appreciation of the peculiar humour of 'Gulliver's Travels,' that it was only to be expected that he should try his hand at an even more popular book. Mr. Saintsbury has prefixed an excellent critical memoir, and altogether, if Goldsmith could have chosen the garb in which he would best like his Vicar to appear, his ideas would probably have jumped with those of the present publisher."
The Graphic.
"They are indeed some of the most excellent specimens of artistic colour-printing now to be seen; and the book is a wonder of cheapness, seeing it is sold at the low sum of 12s. 6d."