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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Fifth Edition. An incomplete set (volumes II, IV, V, VI, of six volumes) of The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, by Robert Anderson. Stated Fifth Edition, printed for a number of publisher/booksellers in Dublin, Edinburgh and London by Duncan, Stevens, & Co., of Edinburgh. Original publisher's full leather covers, gilt tooling to spines, including fleurs-de-list, titles and volume numbers over burgundy leather labels, with four raised bands to each spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities, some stress to, cracking of joints, cracking of a few pastedowns, but still sturdy and stand on their own easily. Protected by stiff Mylar jackets, marbled page edges all around. Fine marbled endpapers, ornate bookplate of William Louis St. Julien Prioleau inside all front flaps. Volume II: x, 1-470 pp. Volume IV: x, [1], 2-469 pp., and with chip missing to spine bottom. Volume V: iv, [1], 2-578 pp. Volume VI: vi [1], 2-564 pp. All in, a handsome, if incomplete set of Smollett's best-known works.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.