Description

[003869] Smollett, Tobias. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. To Which are Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. ill. Cruikshank, George. London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. First Thus. 12mo. Hardback. Good. Two volumes complete – Volume One – [5], 2-422pp and Volume Two – [5], 2-448pp. 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

Light foxing and off setting to frontispiece and title, very occasional and very light foxing to text, generally quite bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedown, small bookseller’s label to reverse of front marbled endpaper

With eight engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for)

In the Roscoe’s Novelists Library series

Cohn 704; Sadleir 3736a