[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Fielding's JOSEPH ANDREWS, 1742, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $3500 NET

FIELDING, Henry. THE HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH ANDREWS... 
London: A. Millar, 1742. First Edition. First edition of the first 
novel, of which only 1500 copies were printed, by the creator of TOM 
JONES and the writer Sir Walter Scott called "the father of the English 
novel." Two duodecimo volumes. xix [1] 308 [4]; [3] 310 [2] pages. With 
the two leaves of publisher's advertisements in each volume. Cross III, 
305; Rothschild 844. Very attractive full calf by F. Bedford with 
marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, and heavily 
gilt-decorated spines with green and red morocco spine labels. Tipped to 
the front endpaper of the first volume is a 1778 newspaper clipping of a 
"Prologue to the New Farce of Joseph Andrews." Some wear to joints with 
minor loss. Possibly rebacked but if so done very skillfully. Lovely 
example. Near Fine.

JOSEPH ANDREWS may fairly be called the first comedic novel in English. 
(#008654)        $5,000.00

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