The Vicar of Wakefield

No book-club editions exist for a 1766 title; the traps are the same-year London and Dublin reprints and the later 'first thus' illustrated editions. The second and third editions appeared in 1766 with London imprints and edition statements on the title-page. The famous illustrated Vicars — Hugh Thomson's of 1890 and Arthur Rackham's of 1929 — are 'first thus' at best. Most dangerous for the unwary is the 1885 facsimile reproduction of the first edition, introduced by Austin Dobson, which reprints the 1766 title-page wording and is regularly mistaken for the original; the first edition was issued plain and unillustrated, so any decorated or illustrated Vicar of Wakefield is not it.