Tobias Smollett George Saintsbury Frank (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume 1 only. Cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and fading. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing, soiling. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Frank Richards : Plates (illustrator). Brown cloth spine with gilt titling. Paper covered boards. Rubbed & bumped. No ownership marks. Frontis portrait. Illustrated title page. Volume 1. 253 pages. Volume 2. 264 pages. Clean and tight. Size: 12mo.

Original Green Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Frank Richards (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1895. First edition thus. ix, 264pp., 3 tissue guarded plates by Frank Richards and an illustrated title page by F.D. Bedford. Top edge gilt. This is the second volume only of Tobias Smollett's third novel, originally published in 1753. This volume contains chapters 39 to 67 (the final chapter) and forms volume 9 of the publisher's collected works of Tobia Smollett, edited by George Saintsbury in twelve volumes.The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling and designs on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with light shelf wear on the boards and bumping to the bottom of the spine and bottom corners. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing on the endpapers and a few scattered light foxing marks elsewhere within the book. The half-title page is browned. There is a small private ex-libris label on the front fixed endpaper.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1900 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 283 Language: English.

Original Green Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Frank Richards (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1899. First edition thus. Complete in 3 volumes. xlvii, 159pp.; xv, 219pp.; xv, 216pp. There are 3 tissue guarded plates by Frank Richards and an illustrated title page by F.D. Bedford in each volume. Top edges gilt. The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon?s mate in the Royal Navy, especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741. The three books form volumes 1 to 3 of the publisher's collected works of Tobia Smollett, edited by George Saintsbury in twelve volumes.The books are uniformly bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling and designs on the spines and front boards. The cases of the books are in very good condition with some shelf wear on the boards and the spines have faded to a light brown colour. The top of the spine of the first volume is bumped with some fraying to the cloth and the bottom of the spine of volumes 1 and 3 are bumped. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing on the endpapers and a few scattered light foxing marks elsewhere within the books, including some marks on the frontispiece illustrations and title pages. There is a small private ex-libris label on the front fixed endpapers of volumes 2 and 3 and traces of a removed label on the front fixed endpaper of volume 1.

Original Green Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Frank Richards (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1895. First edition thus. 4 volume set from the Works of Tobias Smollett. xxiv, 238pp.; xiii, 250pp.; ix, 261pp.; ix, 276pp. There are 3 tissue guarded plates by Frank Richards and an illustrated title page by F.D. Bedford in each volume. Top edges gilt.The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett (172-1771), first published in 1751 and revised and published again in 1758. It tells the story of an egotistical man who experiences luck and misfortunes in the height of 18th-century European society. The four books form volumes 4 to 7 of the publisher's collected works of Tobias Smollett, edited by George Saintsbury in twelve volumes.The books are uniformly bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling and designs on the spines and front boards. The cases of the books are in very good condition with some shelf wear on the boards. The top of the spine of the first volume and bottom of the spine of volumes 2 and 3 are bumped. The spines have faded to a light brown colour. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing on the endpapers and a few scattered light foxing marks elsewhere within the books, including some marks on the frontispiece illustrations. There is a small private ex-libris label on the front fixed endpapers.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frank Richards (illustrator). Of this Editioin of Smollett's Novels, Fifteen hundred copies are printed for England and America by Messr. Morrison & Gibb, Edinburgh, 1895. Illustrations Frank Richards, designs F.T. Bedford. Twelve Volumes. Green cloth with gold titles on front cover and spine of each volume, upper edge of textblock gilt. Clean unmarked interiors, minimal/minor rubbing on edges of spine, minor damage to the cover of Peregrine Pickle; overall Very Good+ attractive hardcover set.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Richards, Frank; Bedford, F.D. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Twelve volumes (complete), octavo size, total pp. approximately 3100, one of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Tobias George Smollett (ca.1721-1771), a Scottish author, was known for his "picaresque" novels (stories which depict the adventures "of a roguish, but 'appealing hero', of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society" (n.b., quote from Wiki). His best-known novels are included in this set, such as "Roderick Random", "Peregrine Pickle", and "Humphrey Clinker"; while perhaps less read today than in the past, his works influenced such major authors as Charles Dickens and mention of him pops up in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" and Eliot's "Middlemarch". The editor of this set, George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (1845-1933) was a well-known literary critic and historian, with his work covering a wide range of topics: French literature, English literature, and Poetry, in addition to providing numerous articles for the ninth edition (1875-1889) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The illustrations (other than the frontis in Volume I) by Frank Richards (1863-1935), known mostly as a landscape and figure painter, working in both oil and watercolour; he was elected as a full member of the RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) in 1921. The richly decorated illustrated title pages were designed by Francis Donkin Bedford (1864-1954), who originally trained as an architect but turned to book illustration in the 1880s; he also designed the title page for the first edition of Peter and Wendy, as well as many others. ___DESCRIPTION: Set bound in half navy blue leather over marbled boards, top edges gilt, fore-edges uncut, marbled endpapers matching the boards, series title page with the volume number within the series, below which is the volume number of the sub-set, limitation statement on the verso of the series title for the first book of each sub-set, tissue-guarded frontispieces (different in each volume), illustrated title pages designed by F.D. Bedford, decorative chapter headpieces at the Contents, List of Illustrations, Introduction (at the beginning of each subset), Preface, Apologue (these two only in the first volume), and the first Chapters of each volume, each volume with two tissue-guarded plates in addition to the frontis bound in; octavo size (8.25" by 5.25"), pagination: set volumes I - III, "Roderick Random", no. 148 of 150: Vol. I, [i-iv] v-xlviii [1] 2-159; Vol. II, [i-iv] v-xvi, 1-219; and Vol. III, [i-iv] v-xvi, 1-216; set volumes IV - VII, "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle", no. 134 of 150: Vol. I, [i-iv] v-xxiv, 1-238; Vol. II, [i-iv] v-xiv, 1-250; Vol. III, [i-iv] v-x, 1-261; and Vol. IV, [i-iv] v-x, 1-276; set volumes VIII and IX, "Ferdinand Count Fathom", no. 148 of 150 (note that these two volumes with signatures largely unopened): Vol. I, [i-iv] v-xx, 1-253 and Vol. II, [i-iv] v-x, 1-264; set volume X, "Sir Launcelot Greaves", no. 148 of 150, [i-iv] v-xvi, 1-286; and set volumes XI and XII, "Humphry Clinker", no. 148 of 150 (these two volumes also largely unopened): Vol. I, [i-vi] vii-xvi, 1-235 and Vol. II, [i-iv] vii-viii, 1-233 (note that pp. v-vi, which was likely the Contents, appears not to have been bound into this volume, as there is no evidence of extraction). ___CONDITION: Overall the set is near fine; all the text blocks are strong and square with solid hinges, the interior pages are clean and bright, each volume collates complete, and the entire set is free of prior owner markings; some overall rubbing to the leather bindings, the spines have mellowed to a brown tone, light toning to the preliminary and final few leaves, offsetting from the tissue guards and illustrations to their opposing pages, and dustiness to the uncut fore-edges. ___CITATIONS: Houfe, Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators; the web site of Richard Taylor Fine Art. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy set, and therefore additional postage will apply. We are happy to ship at cost to both domestic and international customers, please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.