Accession number
PML 127732-33
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Published
Wästerås : Tryckt hos Joh. Laur. Horrn, 1765.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund; 1995.
Notes
Actual height is 17.5 cm.
First publication in Swedish.
Preface to the translator's wife is signed "M.E." [i.e. M. Ekelund] in Livorno, 1760, noting that his translation into Swedish is taken from the French.
Signatures: v. 1: A-L⁸, M⁴; v. 2: N-Z⁸, 2A⁴; v. 3: 2B-2L⁸, 2M⁴; v. 4: 2N-3B⁸.
Separate title pages in red and black for each volume; paged consecutively: 744 p.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Old shelfmarks in ink, "No. 107" and "No. 108."
Offsetting of ink from manuscript text, v. 2.
Footnotes explain English customs and laws, as well as historical and literary references.
First publication in Swedish.
Preface to the translator's wife is signed "M.E." [i.e. M. Ekelund] in Livorno, 1760, noting that his translation into Swedish is taken from the French.
Signatures: v. 1: A-L⁸, M⁴; v. 2: N-Z⁸, 2A⁴; v. 3: 2B-2L⁸, 2M⁴; v. 4: 2N-3B⁸.
Separate title pages in red and black for each volume; paged consecutively: 744 p.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Old shelfmarks in ink, "No. 107" and "No. 108."
Offsetting of ink from manuscript text, v. 2.
Footnotes explain English customs and laws, as well as historical and literary references.
Description
4 v. in 2 ; 18 cm.
Provenance
E.E. Monthan(?) (signature unclear); F. Rehnström (signature); Gustaf Berndtsson (bookplate).
Binding
Three-quarter speckled calf, gold-tooled spine, pale yellow and green vellum spine labels.
Classification
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