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  The Limited Editions Club Edition of Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle; signed by illustrator John Austen and finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe

  SMOLLETT, Tobias; John Austen [Illustrator].

  The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which is Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality.

  New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936.

  The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Smollett's second novel. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and numbers to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispieces, title page vignettes, with color illustrations throughout. Boldly signed by illustrator John Austen on the colophon page at the rear of volume two. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 3. In fine condition. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Illustrated by John Austen. John Austen was a distinguished British illustrator whose elegant, Art Deco–influenced line work and imaginative visual interpretations brought a distinctive modern sensibility to classic literary texts, including works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and Jane Austen.

  Price: $1,250.00     Item Number: 148809

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