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Amelia / by Henry Fielding, Esq; : in four volumes. Vol. I [-IV]

Accession number
PML 75415-18
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Published
London : Printed for A. Millar ..., 1752 [i.e. 1751]
Credit line
Bequest of Tessie Jones, 1976.
Notes
Signatures: A6, B-N12; A4, B-M12; A6, B-O12, P6; A4, B-N12, O4; v. 3 includes preliminary blank.
Page 221 in v. 2 misnumbered 211 (as usual).
1st edition (second issue, with corrected "at the Folly," p. 191, v. 3); first published in December of 1751 and reprinted shortly thereafter, without any textual alterations (see Cross, Rothschild).
Strahan printed v. 1 and 3; the printer of v. 2 and 4 is unknown.
Some press figures vary from PML 130025-28.
Description
4 v. ([2], xii, 285, [3]; [2], viii, 262, [2]; [2], ix, [1], 323, [1]; vii, [1], 296 p.) ; 17 cm
Provenance
Provenance: E.A. Pickering Wolcote (signature); I.W. (signature, address "Haywood Lodge, Hereford"); Tessie Jones.
Binding
Speckled calf, gold-tooled.
Classification
Department