SMOLLETT, Tobias.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker … The second Edition …
London, Printed for W. Johnston … and B. Collins … 1771.
3 vols, 12mo, with the half-titles; occasional light foxing; a very good copy in contemporary calf; boards slightly rubbed at edges, the spines chipped, joints rubbed; red morocco spine labels.
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker … The second Edition …
Second edition of Smollett’s acknowledged masterpiece, printed in the same year as the first. The story describes, in epistolary form, the journey of the Matthew Bramble, a hypochondriac Scot, and his family round Britain in search of a cure for his various ailments. The titular Humphry Clinker is an uneducated ostler, employed by Bramble as a servant, who later turns out to be his son.
This is Dr Newman’s ‘Wells’ B setting, the variant with p. 249 misnumbered in volume I.
Franklin Newman, ‘A consideration of the bibliographical problems connected with the first edition of Humphry Clinker’, PBSA v.44 (1970).