FIELDING, Henry]. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams . London: Printed for A. Millar, 1742.
FIELDING, Henry]. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams . London: Printed for A. Millar, 1742. 2 volumes, 12° (1161 x 95 mm). With two leaves of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. I, and one each at beginning and end of vol. II. Contemporary calf gilt, covers with double-fillet borders, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, morocco lettering piece in one (some chipping at extremities). Provenance : Rainald Knightly (1819-1895), 1st Baron Knightly, British Conservative party politician (Fawsley bookplate); William Marchbank (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION . Fielding continues his novelistic critique of Richardson’s Pamela in this alternative conception of the art of fiction. He calls it in his preface the “comic Epic-Poem in Prose”. It may fairly be called the first comedic novel in English. Cross III, p. 305; Rothschild 844.
FIELDING, Henry]. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams . London: Printed for A. Millar, 1742.
FIELDING, Henry]. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams . London: Printed for A. Millar, 1742. 2 volumes, 12° (1161 x 95 mm). With two leaves of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. I, and one each at beginning and end of vol. II. Contemporary calf gilt, covers with double-fillet borders, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, morocco lettering piece in one (some chipping at extremities). Provenance : Rainald Knightly (1819-1895), 1st Baron Knightly, British Conservative party politician (Fawsley bookplate); William Marchbank (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION . Fielding continues his novelistic critique of Richardson’s Pamela in this alternative conception of the art of fiction. He calls it in his preface the “comic Epic-Poem in Prose”. It may fairly be called the first comedic novel in English. Cross III, p. 305; Rothschild 844.
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