Male : Novelist. All his work is satirical and full of coarse humour. He travelled the world as a ship's surgeon and died on the continent. Also translated Cervantes

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Dumbartonshire

Date of Birth : 1721 Date of Death : 1771 Age : 51

Education : Glasgow

The Adventures of Roderick Random
(1748 for J Osborn - 2 vols) - Anon
(1794 Mathew Carey, Phila) - 2 vols
(1750 - 3rd Ed)
(1770 - 8th Ed)
(1831 Cochrane : Roscoe's Novelist's Library) - Cruikshank

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
(1751 for the author, London) - 4 vols
(1765 - 3rd Ed)
(1769 Baldwin. 4th Ed) - 4 vols
(1784 Strahan, Rivington. 7th Ed) - 4 vols
(1805) - plates by T Rowlandson
Including Memoirs (1831 Cochrane) - 2 vols. - Cruikshank
(1857) - Phiz
(1904) - Cruikshank
(1936 Ltd Eds Club, NY) (Ltd Eds Club, OUP) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by John Austen

The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
(1771 W Johnston) - 3 vols
Offered in 1998 for £320
(1771 for W Johnston & B Collins. 2nd Ed) - 3 vols. Anon
(1836 Harper, NY) - George Cruikshank
(1955 Folio Society) - Derrick Harris

1746-1750
The Tears of Scotland (1746)
Advice : A Satire in Verse (1746)
Reproof : A Satire in Verse (1747)
Ode on the Loss of a Grandmother (1747) - burlesque
A Complete History of England (1748) - 4 vols
The Regicide, Or James the First of Scotland : A Tragedy (1749 for Osborn & Millar, London) - Anon
Offered in 1998 for £230

1751-1760
An Essay on the External Use of Water (1752)
The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom (1753 for W Johnston, London) - 2 vols. Anon.
[Pirated Edition] (1771 for W Johnston, London. 2nd Ed)
(Ed) Critical Review (1756)
The Reprisal, Or The Tars of Old England : A Comedy (1757 R Baldwin) - Anon
A Complete History of England (1758) - 4 vols (1758-60 Rivington. 2nd Ed) - 11 vols
[This was first published in weekly parts at 6d. It proved popular, selling 20,000 because the
publisher sent it to every parish clerk in England with half-a-crown enclosed as a
compliment, to have them distributed through the pews of churches]
(Ed) The British Magazine, or Monthly Repository for Gentlemen and Ladies (1760)

1761-1770
(Ed) The Briton (1762-3)
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves (1762)
Continuation of the History of England (1763-5) - 5 vols
A North Briton Extraordinary (1765 for W Nichol) - Anon. also attributed to James Boswell
Travels Through France and Italy (1766 for R Baldwin, London) - 2 vols
A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages (1766)
The Present State of All Nations : Containing a Geographical, Natural, Commercial
& Political History of all the Countries in the Known World (1768-9 Baldwin) - 8 vols
The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769 Robinson & Roberts, London) - 2 vols. Anon

1771-1780
Ode to Independence (1773) - posthumous
Plays and Poems .. with Memoirs of the Life & Writings of the Author
(1777 Evans & Baldwin, London)

1781-1800
The History of England from the Revolution to (1789) - 5 vols
Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett (1790) - 6 vols
(1796) - 6 vols
(1797 for B Law, London) - 8 vols
(1806 Mundell, Doig & Stevenson, Edinburgh. 3rd Ed) - 6 vols
(1820 Stirling & Slade, Edinburgh 6th Ed) - 6 vols
(1824) - 12 vols
(1850 Bohn) - one vol. Cruikshank
(Trans) The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane by Le Sage (1798 C Cooke, London) - 3 vols

1801-1850
The History of England .. Designed as a Continuation of Mr Hume's History
(1810 for Peter Hill & Silvester Doig, Edinburgh) - 5 vols
(Trans) The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane by Le Sage (1819 M'Lean, Bumpus, et al) - 3 vols

1851-1899
Works of Tobias Smollett (1870)
Works (Ed by J P Browne) (1872) - 8 vols
Works (Ed by G F Sainstbury) (1895 Gibbings, London) - 12 vols
Works (1899-1901) - 12 vols

20thC
The Works (1905 The Jenson Society, NY) - 1000. 12 vols
The Works (1925 Navarre Society) - 12 vols. Edited by George Saintsbury
The Shakespeare Head Edition of Smollett's Novels (1925 Basil Blackwell) - 11 vols. 750
Offered in 1998 for £400
The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality (1925 Peter Davies) - 1500. Vera Willoughby
Letters : Edited by Edward S Noyes (1926 Harvard UP)
Letters : A Supplement to the 1926 Noyes Collection (1950 Ortega, Madrid) - edited by F Cordasco

READING
Robert Anderson : Life of Tobias Smollett (1796)
Robert Chambers : Smollett - His Life and a Selection from his Writings (1867)
David Hannay : Life of Tobias George Smollett (1887)
W H Oliphant Smeaton : Tobias Smollett (1897)
Lewis Melville : The Life & Letters of Tobias Smollett (1926 Faber & Gwyer)
L L Martz : The Later Career of Tobias Smollett (1942 New Haven)
Robert Gittings : Smollett (1995 Greenwich Exchange Student Guide £6.99)
Jerry C Beasley : Tobias Smollett - Novelist (1998 Georgia UP £35.95)
Jeremy Lewis : Tobias Smollett (2003 Cape £20)