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The adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality.

Title
The adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality.
Author
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.
Publication
London, Printed for the author, and sold by D. Wilson, 1751.

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TextRestricted use Arents S 0717Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Description
4 v.; 17 cm.
Subject
  • Tobacco in fiction
  • Smoking in art
Note
  • Includes numerous references to tobacco, e.g. vol. 1, p. 18: "Tom ... sat smoaking his pipe with great indifference ... " and vol. 2, p. 249-251 (portrays Pickle's Dutch hosts as continuing to smoke through a shipwreck).
  • With 2 water-colors laid in, one signed: C. W. [i. e. C. Willyams?] fecit, 1784, and depicting the scene cited above (vol. 1, p. 18), with several characters smoking.
  • Provenance: Cooper Willyams (bookplate); Jn. Willyams (autograph on bookplate, vol. 1); Thomas Southee (autographs: "Canterbury 1832")
Call Number
Arents S 0717
OCLC
  • 65654273
  • NYPG744019135-B
Author
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.
Title
The adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality.
Imprint
London, Printed for the author, and sold by D. Wilson, 1751.
Research Call Number
Arents S 0717
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