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4 volumes. A very attractive and rare edition, the second, with the author's last corrections and improvements. With an engraved portrait of Smollett as frontispiece to Vol. I. 8vo, very handsomely bound in full tan goatskin, the covers with multiple gilt fillet borders, both wide and narrow, the inner with ornate corner-pieces, the spines with raised bands gilt tooled and decorated, three compartments gilt decorated and framed between wide gilt tooled raised bands, and with gilt ruled board edges and triple gilt filleted turn-ins and all edges marbled, marbled end-leaves. xii, 582; xii, 554; xi, [1], 521, [1]; vii, [1], 536 pp. A very handsome and very finely bound copy, the bindings strong and sturdy and well preserved with just a touch of expected age evidence, the hinges firm, the text fine and fresh with only a little spotting at the free-flys and to the paper used for the portrait plate. A very pleasing and collectible set of this important work.