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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. xv, 250; [4], 249; [4], 275 pp. 6¾x4, uniformly bound in period full calf, rebacked with modern calf but period calf spines laid on, blind-stamped dentelles, together housed in a custom cloth slipcase. 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: Rubbing, small chips to period calf, mild edge wear; a few signatures a bit off-centered, light foxing, scattered dampstains, Volume I front free endpaper loosely laid in, previous owner's signatures; about very good overall. Item number: 166283