Oliver Goldsmith, Hugh Thomson

A signed, limited edition copy of She Stoops To Conquer.

• Oliver Goldsmith (Irish).
• Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
• London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
• 198 pages.
• Includes an original signed drawing of a character from the book.
• Includes 26 tipped-in color plates, plus many in-text illustrations.
• Part of an edition of 350 numbered copies signed by Thomson—this a presentation copy, which is not numbered.
• Bound in the original full elaborately gilt-stamped vellum, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, ties renewed.

Thomson has drawn the figure of a man in period dress celebrating by kicking up his heels, taking off his hat and waving a whip in the air. The man is Tony Lumpkin, a character from the play. Thomson captioned the piece: "'And Tony Lumpkin is his own man again' / p. 197"; he has signed it, "With / Hugh Thomson's / kind regards / December 1912."