SMOLLETT, T.
The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a Continuation of Mr. Hume’s History.) A New Edition, with the Author’s last Corrections and Improvements.
LondonPrinted for T. Cadell in the Strand; and R. Baldwin no 47 in Pater-Noster Row .: 1785
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5 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tree-calf, smooth spines with complimenting red and green morocco labels and gilt decoration. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Smollett. Joints just starting but still holding firm, lightly rubbed along extremities, contents clean and unmarked, generally a very good set in handsome tree-calf bindings. Tobias George Smollett (1721 1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, critic and playwright. He was best known for picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later novelists, including Charles Dickens. In fourteen months from 1755 to 1757 Smollett wrote his four-volume Complete History of England, making him one of the most distinguished literary men in London; he considered it to be his major work.
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Original tinted lithograph (44 x 61 cm) with additional later hand-colouring. Full page. Roberts was the first independent, professional British artist to travel so extensively in the Near East. His tour in 1838-9 produced 272 sketches, a panorama of Cairo and three full sketchbooks, enough material to "serve me for the rest of my life" (Roberts, eastern journal, 28 Jan 1839). Over the next decade he made "a series of intire new drawings" for the large coloured lithographs executed by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, which was originally published by subscription, 1842-9. No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. "Robert's Holy Land was one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey, Travel). Yesterday and Today: Egypt, 46. Ruins of Kom Ombo. Nov 21st, 1838.
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