The Adventures of Count Fathom … with Illustrations by George Cruikshank

The Adventures of Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett. Edited by George Saintsbury with Illustrations by George Cruikshank. 2 volumes.

Author(s): Smollett, Tobias and George Saintsbury (Ed.)

12mo.(4.25" x 6.75") 2 volumes complete (from larger set). c1890. Smollett, Tobias and George Saintsbury (Ed.). London: The Navarre Society Ltd. Quarter brown calf over rust cloth boards. Spines with gilt title/author/vol# bordered by gilt rule with gilt floral decoration (see pic). Slight edgewear and a white mark to vol.I rear board (see pic). Soiling to the fore-edge of some pages. Front cover of vol.II with 1/8" loss of cloth to fore-edge (see pic). Prior owners name neatly in green ink to front pastedowns. Top edge gilt, others deckled. Engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume. Very mild foxing focused to front and rear Complete novel in two volumes (VIII, IX) from larger XII volume set of The Works of Tobias Smollett. A good looking set of books.

From Wiki: Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 – 17 September 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. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others. The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom is a novel by Tobias Smollett first published in 1753. It was Smollett's third novel and met with less success than his two previous more picaresque tales. The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe and England with little concern for the law or the welfare of others. He is the son of an equally disreputable mother, and Smollett himself comments that "Fathom justifies the proverb, 'What's bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh". Sir Walter Scott commented that the novel paints a "complete picture of human depravity". The main character reappears as a minor character in Smollet's later novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. The novel's elements of terror and the supernatural have caused some historians of English literature to describe it as anticipating the themes of the Gothic novel.

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