The adventures of Roderick Random. The second edition

by Tobias Smollett

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First edition

London: printed for J. Osborn, 1748. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xxiii, 1 , 324; xii, 372; without half-titles, as issued; engraved frontispiece in each volume; full contemporary calf, rebacked and recased in the 19th century; a good, sound set. The first edition was published in January of the same year see Rothschild 1905 . Smollett's first work of prose fiction, the hero of which, like Gil Blas, recounts a life of varied adventures which he experiences in the

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