The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.d.

With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, by Robert Anderson, M.D.

SMOLLETT, Tobias

SMOLLETT, Tobias The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.d. With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, by Robert Anderson, M.D.

For Silvester Doig & Andrew Stirling, Edinburgh, 1811.

Fourth collected edition. Six volumes, all finely bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt bands to spine and red and black morocco title labels. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Smollett. A superb set, bright and clean and with only the most minor wear. Internally fresh. A handsome and exceptionally well preserved set.

Smollet was best known for developing the 'picturesque novel', his Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle being two of the foremost works of the genre. He was admired by Dr Johnson and influenced Dickens in his novels.

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