The Adventures of Roderick Random
de Smollett, Tobias
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Aceptable
- Librería
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: Chiswick Press, 1823. A very early edition of this comic novel, published by the Chiswick Press. Two volumes bound as one, with two engraved title-pages. 278pp., 276pp. respectively. Bound in green half leather with ornately compartmentalized and gilt spine over marbled paper covered boards. Matching marbed end-papers. Previous owner's name written in pencil on blank prelim, else a very clean copy with no markings internally and no foxing. Boards show light shelfwear, A fine collectable copy.. Early Printing. Half-Leather. Fine. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.
Sinopsis
Of all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving, as that which is introduced, as it were occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life, and by representing familiar scenes in an uncommon and amusing point of view, invests them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed; he espouses his cause, he sympathises with him in his distress, his indignation is heated against the authors of his calamity: the humane passions are inflamed; the contrast between dejected virtue and insulting vice appears with greater aggravation, and every impression having a double force on the imagination, the memory retains the circumstance, and the heart improves by the example.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003891
- Título
- The Adventures of Roderick Random
- Autor
- Smollett, Tobias
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Edición
- Early Printing
- Editorial
- Chiswick Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1823
- Palabras clave
- Enlish Literature, Fiction, Eighteenth Century Novel
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 18th Century English Literature;
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
