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The Adventures of Roderick Random. (American Bindings)
Scarce 1836 Harper Edition of Smollett’s Picaresque Classic
Scarce American reprint in handsome condition of Smollett’s 1748 novel, one of the first major English picaresque works and a foundational text of British comic fiction. Cruikshank’s illustrations, though originally engraved for earlier London editions, were a key attraction for American reprint houses responding to the visual tastes of 1830s readers.
Description: The Adventures of Roderick Random. (American Bindings)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1836. 8vo. Frontispiece with tissue guard, pp. x, 466. Illustrated. The List of Illustrations calls for four plates. In this copy, one is absent—it was clearly never bound in rather than removed later. The last plate lacks its tissue guard. Publisher’s full floral-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. General soiling to binding.
[3736021]Shaw & Shoemaker 40235. OCLC, six locations.
Price: $75.00