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

She Stoops To Conquer with Signed Drawing

First Rackham edition of Vicar of Wakefield by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Oliver%20Goldsmith&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oliver Goldsmith</a>, with a large half-page pen-and-ink drawing <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> and dated in the year of publication by Rackham, depicting two characters from the book.<ul><li>Oliver Goldsmith (Irish).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Harrap,&nbsp;(1929). </li><li>232 pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Rackham with 12 color plates and 22 black-and-white images. </li><li>Original drawing by Rackham inscribed and dated "17.11.29" on verso of half title.</li><li>Printed on laid paper with watermarks.</li><li>Original blue gilt-stamped cloth, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, bottom edge uncut.</li></ul>

Vicar of Wakefield

Signed limited-edition copy of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, or, The Mistakes of a Night.<ul><li>Oliver Goldsmith (Irish).</li><li>Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Hodder &amp; Stoughton,&nbsp;[1912].&nbsp;</li><li>197 pp.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes 25 tipped-in color plates.</li><li>Number 185 of 350 copies.</li><li>Signed by Hugh Thomson.</li><li>Presentation copy, inscribed to title: "With every good wish from Caroline and Rudyard Kipling, April 19, 1913."</li><li>Bound in full modern burgundy morocco, paneled spine with gilt, top edge gilt.</li></ul>

She Stoops to Conquer, or, The Mistakes of a Night

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