Shelfmark
Gn.6.07 - Gn.6.08
Author
Title
The adventures of Roderick Random. By Tobias Smollett, M.D..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Chiswick: : printed by C. Whittingham. Sold by C.S. Arnold, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden; Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court; and Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, London., 1823..
Physical description
2 v. ; 13 cm.
Note
Engraving on title page.
Provenance
Bookplate of Maurice Baring, dated June 1897, on front pastedown of both volumes.
Provenance
Plain book label of “Mr Thomas Bell”, undated, on front pastedown of both volumes.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, in both volumes, including the ex dono note of Maurice Baring in v. 1.
Binding
19th-century panelled brown calfskin over millboards. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets and blind tools on the boards edges. Spine flat with gilt fillets, tools, and titling over black label ("Roderick Random"). Textblock flat and sprinkled ?red. Endpapers of undecorated wove paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Book label on front flyleaf recto of v. 1: "Do not take out of the Library".
Added entry--name
Whittingham, Charles, 1767 - 1840 printer.
Added entry--name
Arnold, Charles Stapleton bookseller.
Added entry--name
Simpkin and Marshall bookseller.
Added entry--name
Tegg, Thomas, 1776 - 1845 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Baring, Maurice, 1874 - 1945 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bell, Thomas former owner.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50878