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[003868] Smollett, Tobias; Roscoe, Thomas (Memoir) The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. ill. Cruikshank, George. London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. First Thus. 12mo. Hardback. Good. [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