The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker / Edited By George Saintsbury ; With Illustrations By George Cruikshank. Two Volumes Smollett, Tobias

Smollett, Tobias. The expedition of Humphry Clinker / edited by George Saintsbury ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Two volumes. London: The Navarre Society Ltd., s.d. [1925]. The works of Tobias Smollett; volumes XI and XII. Hardback, Good, no dustjackets. Green cloth, faded to spine and edges, slightly bumped to corners. Gilt lettering and fleur-de-lys decoration to spines. Bindings strong. Light tanning to endpapers. Frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards. Illustrated title pages. xvi, 235 + 233pp. Top edge of page blocks in gilt; other edges untrimmed. Contents clean and bright. Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, critic and playwright. George Orwell praised him as "Scotland's best novelist". The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of his picaresque novels, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. It is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire; his sister Tabitha; their niece Lydia and nephew Jeremy Melford; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins; and Lydia's suitor Wilson. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.