12 volumes. (8vo) 25.2x16.5 cm. (9¾x6½"), original three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, repeating floral device on spines, top edges gilt. No. 147 of 500 sets of the Wakefield Edition De Luxe.

Prospectus laid into Volume 1. Edited by Peter Cunningham with an introduction by Austin Dobson. Each volume is illustrated with fine full-page engravings on Japanese vellum, with lettered tissue guards. Frontispieces in two states, those in Volumes 1 through 8 signed by the artist, including A.I. Keller (2), Alfred Fredericks, W.P. Snyder, F. Luis Mora (2), Albert E. Sterner, Charles Broughton. Volumes 9-12 contain Forster's Life and Times of Goldsmith.