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SMOLLETT [Tobias] The expedition of Humphry Clinker, by the author of Roderick Random ... 1st edi...
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SMOLLETT [Tobias]
The expedition of Humphry Clinker, by the author of Roderick Random ... 1st edition,, half titles in all 3 vols., contemporary calf, red morocco lettering pieces, rubbed, ownership inscription on titles to vols. 1 & 2, small hole at inner margins of first few leaves in vol. 3 and early repair to inner margin of p. 275 affecting a few words of text, 12mo., London: Johnston & Collins, [1771] [3]
Note: Rothschild 1925 This copy has the following points Vol. 1 with date 1671,
All sigs. cap., except for sig. A which is in lower case, letter on. p. v dated "Aug. 4",p. vi so numbered, p. ix "respected sir" etc.,, with p, 147 misprinted as 473 and "Mrs Gwyllim" on p. 3 ; Vol II p. 2 line 3 "flagg", line 7 last word "this"
Rothschild notes that the states of these variants has yet to be determined.
The author's last novel published in the year of his death. "In its way, this is another picaresque story insomuch as, during its progress, the characters (who relate everything in letters to their friends) pursue their travels in England and Scotland ... The novel is planned with a skill unusual in Smollet's fiction." Cambridge History of English Literature Vol. X, p. 43
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