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Title: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Author: [Smollett, Tobias] Place: London Publisher: Printed for W. Johnson and B. Collins Date: 1771 Description: 3 volumes. xvi, 250; [4], 249; [4], 275 pp. Half titles present. 6½x4, later full green morocco, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition, First Issue. First issue with misprint on Volume I title page, list date of 1671 "MDCLXXI" instead of 1771. Volume I also with: Arabic "6" on bottom margin of p. vi, "Mrs. Gwillim" on page 3, and page 147 numbered as "473." "Humphry Clinker is one of the great pictures of eighteenth-century England...It stands with Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy...and The Vicar of Wakefield; and the reader who has enjoyed them will enjoy Humphry Clinker the better" - Brander. Rothschild 1925. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to extremities, front joint cracked on Vol. 3, tears to endpapers in Vol. 3; light foxing; very good. Item number: 202024