{
  "full": "\n**TOBIAS SMOLLETT. THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER. 1929–1970. (ML 159)**  \n\n#### 179a. First printing (1929)  \n\n[within double rules] THE EXPEDITION OF | HUMPHRY CLINKER | [rule] | BY | TOBIAS SMOLLETT | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | ARTHUR MACHEN | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xvi, [*2*], 1–433 [434–438]. [1–14]16 [15]4  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Introduction copyright,* 1929, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929; v–xii INTRODUCTION signed p. xii: Arthur Machen. | London, 1929.; xiii–xvi prefatory correspondence; [*1*–*2*] blank; 1–430 text; 431–433 NOTES; [434] blank; [435–438] ML list. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n> *Variant:* Pp. [i–iv] v–xvi, [*2*], 1–433 [434]. [1–13]16 [14]16(16+1.2). Contents through p. [434] as 179a except: [ii] pub. note D12; [iv] *First* statement omitted. (*Fall 1936 jacket*) *Note:* Pp. 431–[434] are an inserted fold.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Title on front panel and spine misspelled: HUMPHREY [*sic*] CLINKER. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Title correctly spelled: HUMPHRY CLINKER. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n> Front flap: 
 The rogues’ gallery of scoundrels and lusty wenches that gave flavor to *Roderick Random* and *Peregrine Pickle* is matched by as humorous an array of delightful and cantankerous characters in *Humphry Clinker*. Here, too, are the caustic turns of speech, the sardonic wit and the acute powers of observation that have made Smollett’s books a plunder house for English writers during almost two centuries. And here, above all, is Smollett in a genial and mellow mood, but candid and outspoken, with the healthy frankness of the eighteenth century. (*Fall 1936*)  \n\nML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published August 1929. *WR* 14 September 1929. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970/71.  \n\nCerf wanted to include a volume of Machen’s stories in the ML and proposed the idea to him when he visited London in summer 1926. *The Hill of Dreams* and *The House of Souls* were in the U.S. public domain, but Machen, who badly needed the money a ML edition would bring, felt he could approve the proposal only if Alfred A. Knopf, his American publisher, did not object (Machen to Cerf, 7 July 1926). Cerf approached Knopf on several occasions but was unable to secure his approval. He told Machen he hadn’t given up hope; meanwhile, he asked him to write an introduction to a volume by Smollett. He offered \\$100, twice the ML’s usual fee, and asked him which Smollett title he would recommend (Cerf to Machen, 21 April 1927). Machen indicated that *Humphry Clinker*, “the work of Smollett’s softened old age” was his own favorite. However, he thought that *Roderick Random* was “more characteristically Smollett: rough, hard, vigorous, cruel: I think it is the typical book to begin with. . . .” He expressed the hope that Cerf would send the money with his order for the introduction: “I am hard up” (Machen to Cerf, 30 April 1927). Illness delayed his work on the introduction by a year, but he wrote Cerf in April 1928 that he was ready to go ahead with it.  \n\n*Humphry Clinker* ranked in the fourth quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. It did not rank among the 100 best-selling titles in the regular ML during the 12-month period, November 1951–October 1952.  \n\n#### 179b. Title page reset (1940)  \n\nTHE EXPEDITION OF | Humphry Clinker | BY | TOBIAS SMOLLETT | INTRODUCTION BY | ARTHUR MACHEN | [torchbearer E4 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 179a. Contents as 179a except: [ii] blank; [iv] INTRODUCTION COPYRIGHT, 1929, | BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [434–438] ML list. (*Spring 1940*)  \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 179a except: [434–446]. [1–13]16 [14]8 [15]16. Contents as 179b except: [434] blank; [435–440] ML list; [441–442] ML Giants list; [443–446] blank. (*Spring 1948*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial in very deep red (14) and dark bluish gray (192) on cream paper with lettering in reverse on rounded very deep red panel at right; background in dark bluish gray with other lettering in reverse. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. \n\n> Front flap as 179a. (*Fall 1947*)  \n\n> Front flap revised:  
 The rogues’ gallery of ruffians and lusty wenches that gave so much color to *Roderick Random* and *Peregrine Pickle* is matched by an array of cantankerous characters in *Humphry Clinker*. Here, in the last of his novels as in the others, are the wit and wisdom, the acute powers of observation, and the sharp turn of phrase that characterize all of Tobias Smollett’s work. Here is Smollett, grown tolerant of human frailty after having screamed against it in *Roderick Random*, now writing in the mellow, satiric vein of amiable elderly people in whom there is a hard core of eccentricity. *Humphry Clinker*, now almost two hundred years old, still retains the freshness and the vigor of the best of the eighteenth-century novels. (*Spring 1955*)  \n\n#### ***Fall***\n\n",
  "id": "179",
  "year": "1929",
  "label": "TOBIAS SMOLLETT. THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER. 1929–1970. (ML 159)",
  "author": "TOBIAS SMOLLETT",
  "title": "THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER.",
  "date": "1929–1970.",
  "something": "ML 159",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "179a",
      "title": "First printing (1929)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] THE EXPEDITION OF | HUMPHRY CLINKER | [rule] | BY | TOBIAS SMOLLETT | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | ARTHUR MACHEN | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xvi, [*2*], 1–433 [434–438]. [1–14]16 [15]4  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Introduction copyright,* 1929, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929; v–xii INTRODUCTION signed p. xii: Arthur Machen. | London, 1929.; xiii–xvi prefatory correspondence; [*1*–*2*] blank; 1–430 text; 431–433 NOTES; [434] blank; [435–438] ML list. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n> *Variant:* Pp. [i–iv] v–xvi, [*2*], 1–433 [434]. [1–13]16 [14]16(16+1.2). Contents through p. [434] as 179a except: [ii] pub. note D12; [iv] *First* statement omitted. (*Fall 1936 jacket*) *Note:* Pp. 431–[434] are an inserted fold.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Title on front panel and spine misspelled: HUMPHREY [*sic*] CLINKER. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Title correctly spelled: HUMPHRY CLINKER. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n> Front flap: 
 The rogues’ gallery of scoundrels and lusty wenches that gave flavor to *Roderick Random* and *Peregrine Pickle* is matched by as humorous an array of delightful and cantankerous characters in *Humphry Clinker*. Here, too, are the caustic turns of speech, the sardonic wit and the acute powers of observation that have made Smollett’s books a plunder house for English writers during almost two centuries. And here, above all, is Smollett in a genial and mellow mood, but candid and outspoken, with the healthy frankness of the eighteenth century. (*Fall 1936*)  \n\nML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published August 1929. *WR* 14 September 1929. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970/71.  \n\nCerf wanted to include a volume of Machen’s stories in the ML and proposed the idea to him when he visited London in summer 1926. *The Hill of Dreams* and *The House of Souls* were in the U.S. public domain, but Machen, who badly needed the money a ML edition would bring, felt he could approve the proposal only if Alfred A. Knopf, his American publisher, did not object (Machen to Cerf, 7 July 1926). Cerf approached Knopf on several occasions but was unable to secure his approval. He told Machen he hadn’t given up hope; meanwhile, he asked him to write an introduction to a volume by Smollett. He offered \\$100, twice the ML’s usual fee, and asked him which Smollett title he would recommend (Cerf to Machen, 21 April 1927). Machen indicated that *Humphry Clinker*, “the work of Smollett’s softened old age” was his own favorite. However, he thought that *Roderick Random* was “more characteristically Smollett: rough, hard, vigorous, cruel: I think it is the typical book to begin with. . . .” He expressed the hope that Cerf would send the money with his order for the introduction: “I am hard up” (Machen to Cerf, 30 April 1927). Illness delayed his work on the introduction by a year, but he wrote Cerf in April 1928 that he was ready to go ahead with it.  \n\n*Humphry Clinker* ranked in the fourth quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. It did not rank among the 100 best-selling titles in the regular ML during the 12-month period, November 1951–October 1952.  \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "179b",
      "title": "Title page reset (1940)  ",
      "full": "\n\nTHE EXPEDITION OF | Humphry Clinker | BY | TOBIAS SMOLLETT | INTRODUCTION BY | ARTHUR MACHEN | [torchbearer E4 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 179a. Contents as 179a except: [ii] blank; [iv] INTRODUCTION COPYRIGHT, 1929, | BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [434–438] ML list. (*Spring 1940*)  \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 179a except: [434–446]. [1–13]16 [14]8 [15]16. Contents as 179b except: [434] blank; [435–440] ML list; [441–442] ML Giants list; [443–446] blank. (*Spring 1948*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial in very deep red (14) and dark bluish gray (192) on cream paper with lettering in reverse on rounded very deep red panel at right; background in dark bluish gray with other lettering in reverse. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. \n\n> Front flap as 179a. (*Fall 1947*)  \n\n> Front flap revised:  
 The rogues’ gallery of ruffians and lusty wenches that gave so much color to *Roderick Random* and *Peregrine Pickle* is matched by an array of cantankerous characters in *Humphry Clinker*. Here, in the last of his novels as in the others, are the wit and wisdom, the acute powers of observation, and the sharp turn of phrase that characterize all of Tobias Smollett’s work. Here is Smollett, grown tolerant of human frailty after having screamed against it in *Roderick Random*, now writing in the mellow, satiric vein of amiable elderly people in whom there is a hard core of eccentricity. *Humphry Clinker*, now almost two hundred years old, still retains the freshness and the vigor of the best of the eighteenth-century novels. (*Spring 1955*)  \n\n"
    }
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}