THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE IN WHICH IS INCLUDED MEMOIRS OF A LADY OF QUALITY. With an Introduction by G.K.Chesterton

2 volumes. First Edition Thus. Limited, numbered, and signed by the illustrator. With colour and black and white illustrations by John Austen. Small folio, publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines and upper covers and in the colour illustrated dustjackets. Housed in the illustrated slipcase. xxiii, 387; viii, 782, colophon, pp. A very fine set in the fine, bright dustjackets, very minimal evidence of age and essentially pristine and near mint.

Edizione: a fine example beautifully illustrated. the adventures of peregrine pickle is a picaresque novel by the scottish author tobias smollett, first published in 1751. it tells the story of an egotistical man who experiences luck and misfortunes in the height of 18th-century european society. peregrine's detailed life experience provides a scope for smollett's satire on human cruelty, stupidity, and greed: from his upbringing, education at oxford, journey to france, jailing at the fleet, and unexpected succession to his father's fortune and his final repentance and marriage to his beloved emilia. the novel is written as a series of adventures, with every chapter depicting a new experience. wiki