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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by Smollett, Tobias; Roscoe, Thomas (Memoir)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. [5], vi-xxxvi, [1], 2-403pp, [1]. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities. The portrait frontispiece and title are lightly foxed, occasional spots of foxing to text, but generally fairly bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedown, small bookseller's label to reverse of front marbled endpaper. With an engraved frontispiece of Smollett by Freeman and four engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 702; Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 12mo.
Synopsis
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six different characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire; his sister Tabitha; their niece and nephew, Jery and Lydia Melford; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins; and Lydia's suitor, Wilson.
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- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003868
- Title
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Author
- Smollett, Tobias; Roscoe, Thomas (Memoir)
- Illustrator
- Cruikshank, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Cochrane and Pickersgill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1831
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Cruikshank, Roscoe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century; Literature and Literary Criticism;
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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