THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK RANDOM 2 Volumes [Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select Novels] by Smollett, Dr - 1823

C. Cooke, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 322 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Moderate creasing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front and rear endpapers and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have heavy rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and splitting to joints.

Boston. 1965. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Bookplate in Front,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket . 240 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Scotland England Literary Criticism 18th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Few serious appreciations of Smollett have ever been written. Through the nineteenth century, critics tended to dismiss his writings as low, coarse and brutal. And even in our own age recognition has been slow in coming. Rehabilitation is more than due to one of the great authors of the English language, and it is this task that Donald Bruce performs magnificently in RADICAL DOCTOR SMOLLETT. Mr. Bruce shows how Smollett has been much underestimated - as a man, as a satirist and reformer, and even as a novelist. To Mr. Bruce, Smollett's ‘large intellect, his manliness, his unusual honesty and penetration, all his qualities cry out for recognition and justice.' In his early chapters Mr. Bruce considers the intellectual climate and the state of knowledge in Smollett's… Read More

C. Cooke. Volumes 1, 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. 16mo. Red half calf, with grey marbled boards. Rough edges. Gilt lettering and decoration on backstrip. No date of publication, illustration opposite title page embellished under direction of publisher in 1795 however. Illustration protected by vellum sheet. Clean text and clean interior. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

C Cooke, London, 1795?. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 256 pages (complete). An evocative antique copy. Full leather with gilt decoration. The boards and spine are much worn all about. They are scuffed, rubbed, marked from handling, age and shelving. They are resolutely secure. Newer end papers. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking the age of the book into account. Whilst there some sprinklings of foxing, the pages are clean, clear, fresh-faced, tight, pleasing. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardcover. viii+254pp. 8vo contemp. half green morocco gilt, spine decorated in compartments with raised bands, rubbed, No Jacket issued

C. Cooke, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Full bound brown leather. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Some cracking to front hinge with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned and heavily rubbed, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is dulled.

For the proprietors by W Clarke, 1810. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Previous owners inscriptions: Yes, old name. Book Condition: Good. Leather spine is scuffed. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: 1810. 1st Edition: Unstated. Pages: 369. Description: Forming part of a series of the most esteemed novels and embellished with elegant engravings.

Orlando Hodgson, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Brown staining to pages throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards.

For The Proprietors By W Clarke, 1810T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1810 W. Clarke edition on rebound brown boards in two volumes embellished with elegant engravings