London: A. Millar, 1751. First edition. leather_bound. xii, 285; viii, 262, ad leaf; ix, 323; vii, 296 pages.16.5 x 9.5 cm. His last novel. Fielding began writing the novel soon after he began his magistracy, and it took a markedly different approach to his comic works Joseph Andrews and Tom..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. Tegetmeier, Denis. Hardcover. 175 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 365 of 500. Six engravings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier. The text followed is that of the edition of 1743. Leather bookplate of Micheline & Mervyn Parkhouse printed in gilt, and..... More
London: John Watts, 1728. First edition. leather_bound. 83 pages. 19 x 12 cm. First edition of Fielding's first play and second publication. Love in Several Masques was quite the triumph for the 20-year-old Fielding. It opened on February 16, 1728, in Drury Lane, with Colley Cibber and Mrs. Oldfield in..... More
London: A. Millar, 1743. First edition. leather_bound. 354, 420, 421 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. First issue with list of subscribers in Vol. 1. A little more than a year after the publication of "Joseph Andrews," he issued by subscription these three volumes. CBEL Vol. 10, pp. 26-27. "The first..... More
New York: Croscup & Sterling, 1902. Hardcover. 22 x 14,5 cm. Limited edition, copy 307 of 1000 of the Edition De Luxe. Interior contents fresh and clean and perhaps never read. Bookplates of Virginia Hawley Holden, a descendent of the Harriet Beecher Stow family. Chips and scuffs to spine paper..... More
London: W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne et al, 1784. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces in each volume by Colyer, a well-known engraver working in London during the later 18th and early 19th centuries who at one time was official engraver of the queen, plus additional..... More