Le vicaire de Wakefield

Bilingual illustrated edition in first printing, translated by Charles Nodier with the English text facing. Notice by Charles Nodier. 10 plates by Johannot on heavy laid paper before letters and more than one hundred vignettes. Printed on fine tinted laid paper. A frontispiece on China paper mounted on heavy laid paper. Text within ruled borders.
Full glazed midnight blue calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with long mirror tools. Boards stamped in blind with a large Cathedral plate with foliate scrollwork (motifs that seem to reproduce the front cover). Edges gilt. Interior border. Fresh overall, but foxing on the frontispiece and title leaf. Traces of rubbing. One upper edge slightly bumped over 0.5cm. The figure p. 341 is missing. Captioned tissue guards present.
Handsome copy in a full contemporary binding. The plate used for the boards seems particularly well suited to the work (cathedral motifs softened by ornaments, foliage and other elements).