The Expedition of Humphry Clinker MODERN LIBRARY # 159 by Smollett, Tobias - 1939

New York: The Modern Library, 1939. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. MODERN LIBRARY # 159 Introduction by Arthur Machen. Very good blue cloth. Gilt titles. Slight wear, previous owner name and decorative gold bookplate. Toledano binding # 8 Orange Kent D Endpapers, book circa 1939, (1929), 12mo, xvi, 433pp. [1], "'By common consent,' writes Professor Mumford Jones, 'The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker is Smollett's masterpiece, the one novel which can be set beside Clarissa Harlowe, Tom Jones, and Tristram Shandy.' The author's last work, it is composed in a series of letters. Thackeray writes in English Humorists: 'Winifred Jenkins and Tabitha Bramble must keep Englishmen on the grin for ages yet to come; and in their letters and the story of their loves there is a perpetual fount of sparkling laughter.' The notes deal fully with people and places, contemporary events, and fashions, and throw light on the social background of the story." RG4 The Modern Library of the World's Best Books