2 volumes, 12mo (165 x 99 mm). Printer’s device on title-pages. (Lacking half-titles, some browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spines gilt, red morocco letter-pieces gilt (rubbed, joints separating, some chipping to extremities). Provenance: old signature effaced; G. Abrims? (signature, 1824).

 

FIRST EDITION, second state with the date in title corrected in Volume II. This work was published anonymously, though an editor of an edition of Smollet’s works in 1790 claimed that Smollett wrote this satire of English politics during the Seven Years’ War. Smollett is best known for picaresque novels, and influenced Charles Dickens. ESTC 006326884; Rothschild 1923.