Smollett Tobias George Saintsbury Editor (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This two volume set is in very good + condition. There is a tissue guard over the frontis piece. There was no printed date, but it probably was circa 1920s.There was no dust jacket as issued, but the blue cover with gold print is in very good + condition also. Language: eng.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edition De Luxe. Tan cloth with paper labels. rough cut pages. No date. Works include Rodrick Random, Sir Launcelot Greaves, Peregrine Pickle and Count Fathom. Light soiling to boards. Dent to top of volume 4. Clean interior. Gilt top edge. Very good set.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Solid bindings. Most covers have wear with color loss at extremities. A few have boards showing. Many have extra wear at head of spine. All have untrimmed page foreedges. Vol. 1 has green library tape at top of spine. Vol. 4 has several numbers on front endpapers. Vol. 11 reinforced inside covers. Vol. 12 has library tape over top of spine. Age-toning to all volumes. Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. No dust jackets. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+/Good. First Thus. 8vo. Approx.200pp.ea. Illus. Green cloth, gilt lettering, top edges gilt. Spines rubbed, spines and corners and bumped, several endpapers offset, foxing throughout, half-title of Vol. I torn, not affecting text, frontispiece+guard of Vol. XI detached. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 12 vol. set; 1902 ed. (Jenson Society); numbered ltd. ed. -- no. 358 of 1,000; publ. w/o jackets; vols. unmarked; boards good; some yellowing to pages from age.

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.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Limited Edition. "Of this Edition of Smollett's Novels, Fifteen hundred copies are printed for England and America by Messrs. Morrison & Gibb, Edinburgh, N.B." limitation statement on the verso of the series title for the first book of each novel. Twelve volumes, complete, bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt stamped decorations front covers and gilt lettering at spines. tops gilt, illustrated title pages by noted British illustrator F.D. Bedford, a different tissue-guarded frontis engraving each volume. A Very Good Plus set, tiny rubs to cloth at tips, some spotting and toning, primarily at end pages. The complete set, uncommon thus. Will require additional postage for priority and international mail, please inquire. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 1500 copies for England and America. In twelve volumes, illustrated by Frank Richards each with half-title, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title pages and other engravings with tissue guards present. This is a collection of Smollett's best works consisting of The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), along with The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves [1760] and The Adventures of Count Fathom [1753]. Binding designed by F.D. Bedford in 3/4 tan polished calf over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers, top edges gilt, two volumes with very tiny chips to head, internally fresh without foxing, names, or plates. A superb 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. ***SPECTACULAR ANTIQUE EDWARDIAN COMPLETE 12-VOLUME SET OF THE WORKS OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT IN ORIGINAL 1/2 MOROCCO FINE BINDING!*** OVERALL CONDITION: ALL 12 VOLUMES IN VERY GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION. 1902 The Works of Tobias Smollett, edited by George Saintsbury with 36 illustrations by Frank Richards. Published in 1902 in London by Gibbings and Company in the limited edition de luxe of only 250 copies. This is copy 203/250. Collated and complete in 12 volumes. Printed by Morrison & Gibb in Edinburgh. Original binding. Octavo, 6.75 x 4.5. Fine original Edwardian 1/2 red morocco over finely woven red linen. Gilded five-ribbed spine with gilded compartment decoration, bordering and lettering. Top edges gilt. Rough cut fore-edges. Grey marbled endpapers. Thick, high-quality paper used for the leaves. Collated and complete featuring 36 tissue-guarded illustrations in total (a frontispiece and 2 additional plates per volume). Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 17 September 1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, critic and playwright. He was best known for picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later novelists, including Charles Dickens. Smollett s reputation as one of the finest mid-18th century English writers was cemented with his major and widely-praised work, A Complete History of England (1757 1765). George Orwell praised him as "Scotland's best novelist".CONDITION DESCRIPTION: All 12 volumes are strongly bound with square spines, firm hinges and joints and tight pages. Nearly all gilding is intact and the boards are colorful, unfaded and not sun-toned. Very light rubbing to extremities. No foxing or writing internally, quite clean overall. Though There is a highly infrequent spot of soiling, like the small white paint stain to the fore-edge of leather board on volume 9 and a tear to a tissue guard I another volume. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some light toning to the pages. Volumes 11 & 12 are in NEAR FINE condition. Volumes 1-10 are in VERY GOOD or better condition - they have water dampening stains to tail of book near the spine heel, bottom edges and bottom of first dozen or so pages and last few pages in each volume else NEAR FINE. More pictures available upon request. The volumes will ship fully insured with signature required upon receipt for your protection. I have bought and sold books and art on eBay for over a decade and have a 100% satisfaction rating. I am now selling on ABE Books. I m a collector first and know what it's like to receive items not matching the seller s descriptions or that were poorly packaged and damaged in transit. That is why I offer a 100% satisfaction, money back guarantee, and go to great lengths to accurately describe my rare, signed and collectible books and post pictures of the "actual book." I carefully package and ship your newly acquired treasure(s) and ship within 1 business day of receiving your order.