SMOLLETT, Tobias; John Austen [Illustrator].
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which is Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality.
The Limited Editions Club Edition of Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle; signed by illustrator John Austen and finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936.
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The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Smollett's second novel. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and numbers to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispieces, title page vignettes, with color illustrations throughout. Boldly signed by illustrator John Austen on the colophon page at the rear of volume two. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 3. In fine condition. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Illustrated by John Austen. John Austen was a distinguished British illustrator whose elegant, Art Deco–influenced line work and imaginative visual interpretations brought a distinctive modern sensibility to classic literary texts, including works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and Jane Austen.
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was a prominent Scottish novelist, historian, and satirist whose works played a vital role in the development of the eighteenth-century English novel. Drawing on his experiences as a naval surgeon and traveler, Smollett infused his fiction with a vivid realism, episodic structure, and biting social critique, evident in major works such as Roderick Random (1748) and Humphry Clinker (1771). The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) is a picaresque novel that offers a scathing satirical portrait of 18th-century British society through the episodic misadventures of its irreverent and often cruel protagonist. Building on the conventions of the Spanish picaresque and inspired by Fielding’s Tom Jones, Smollett employs exaggerated characterization and episodic structure to critique social hypocrisy, corruption, and the pretensions of gentility.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which is Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality.
$1,250.00
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