London: Printed for J. Osborn 1748, 1748. First edition. 12mo. 163x95mm. pp. xxiii, [1], 324; xii, 366. Variant with I9 of volume one as a cancel omitting "Locke" and with the direction line "Vol. 1" but with p182 signed 1 (not P) so it seems to be a combination of the two first edition variants noted in ESTC. Nineteenth century speckled calf, French fillet border to upper and lower covers. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, red and green morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Turn-ins decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. All edges coloured yellow. Front pastedowns have booklabel of Christopher Clark Geest and Winston H. Hagen. Chipping to head of spine of volume one, some very slight scuffing to boards and spine but otherwise an attractive binding in excellent condition. Internally very good with some annotations and corrections in black ink and the bottom edge of G4 of volume two has been repaired. Overall a very nice copy of the first edition of Smollett's famously raucous picaresque novel.

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Bookseller: Voewood Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4065
Title: The Adventures of Roderick Random In Two Volumes
Author: [SMOLLETT, Tobias George]
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Printed for J. Osborn 1748
Date Published: 1748
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.

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