The Vagabond, starring William Godwin as ‘Stupeo’
IT was a third edition of 1799, slightly foxed and browned and lacking the half titles, but the copy of George Walker’s novel The Vagabond seen in a Bloomsbury Auctions sale of August 19 was in a contemporary calf gilt binding and it sold at £400 (C.R. Johnson).
Variously described as a satirical, political or anti-Jacobin novel, The Vagabond was an immediate p…