Accession number
PML 127164-69
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Published
London : Printed for A. Millar ..., 1749.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Notes
2nd ed. (published last week of February), completely reset even though pagination and collation remain the same (see Cross).
Partly printed by William Strahan (see Battestin and Bowers).
Signatures: v. 1. A¹², b¹², c⁸, B-K¹² [K12 blank]; v. 2. 1 leaf unsigned, B-O¹², P⁶; v. 3. 1 leaf unsigned, B⁶, C-R¹² [R12 blank]; v. 4. 1 leaf unsigned, B-O¹²; v. 5. 1 leaf unsigned, B-N¹², O⁴ [O4 blank]; v. 6. 1 leaf unsigned, B⁸ [B5 unsigned], C-O¹².
Lacking "vidit" in Latin motto, v. 5 title (indicates 2nd ed.)
Partly printed by William Strahan (see Battestin and Bowers).
Signatures: v. 1. A¹², b¹², c⁸, B-K¹² [K12 blank]; v. 2. 1 leaf unsigned, B-O¹², P⁶; v. 3. 1 leaf unsigned, B⁶, C-R¹² [R12 blank]; v. 4. 1 leaf unsigned, B-O¹²; v. 5. 1 leaf unsigned, B-N¹², O⁴ [O4 blank]; v. 6. 1 leaf unsigned, B⁸ [B5 unsigned], C-O¹².
Lacking "vidit" in Latin motto, v. 5 title (indicates 2nd ed.)
Description
6 v. (lxiii, [1], 214; [2], 324; [2], 370; [2], 312; [2], 294; [2], 304 p.) ; 18 cm
Provenance
Gilbert Nicholson of Balrath (armorial bookplate); Nathaniel Alexander Nicholson (signature, with acquisition notes).
Binding
Speckled calf, gold-tooled.
Classification
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