Late 19th Century Leather Volumes, Tobias Smollett's the Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - 4 Books

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Title: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
Author: Tobias Smollett.
Editor: George Saintsbury.
Edition: 1st illustrated edition.
Illustrator: Frank Richards.
Binder: … Read more Title: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
Author: Tobias Smollett.
Editor: George Saintsbury.
Edition: 1st illustrated edition.
Illustrator: Frank Richards.
Binder: Stikeman & Co.
Printer: Morrison and Gibb, Edinburgh.
Publisher: Gibbings Company Limited, J.B. Lippincott Company.
Origin: London, Philadelphia.
Publication date: 1895.
Limitation: "Of this Edition of Smollett's Novels, Fifteen hundred copies are printed for England and America by Messrs. Morrison & Gibb, Edinburgh, N.B."

Description: 1025 Pp. (V1; 238 p., V2; 250 p., V3; 261 p., V4; 276 p.). 12mo. Complete set of The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, part of The Works of Tobias Smollett, custom bound by Stikeman & Co. 3/4 green leather hardcover, 4 raised hubs on gilt tooled spine/title, gilt upper leaves, marble boards with gilt ruled edges and leather end caps/matched endpapers, 12 tissue guarded plate/frontispiece illustrations.

Measures: .75 (3.5 overall) W x 4.5 D x 6.75 H inches.

About the work: The novel tells the story of an egotistical man who experiences luck and misfortunes in the height of 18th-century European society.

About the author: Tobias George Smollett was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, which influenced later novelists, including Charles Dickens. (Wiki)

About the binder: Henry Stikeman’s career virtually paralleled the heyday of art bookbinding in America: beginning toward the end of the 19th century, into the beginning of the 20th. A Stikeman binding from the 1880s through, say, 1910-15, represents the best work of the firm. See less