Miscellanies, By Henry Fielding, Esq by FIELDING, HENRY - 1743

London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1743, 1743. First edition, ordinary paper issue. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09. Edges a little rubbed; one label chipped; a few hinges starting, but sound; very good copy in contemporary state.. 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary smooth brown calf, marbled endpapers, spines in six compartments with gilt decorations, brown and black morocco spine labels, gilt lettering. 22-page list of subscribers. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time, including his novel The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild (one of the great works in the literature of roguery) and A Journey from This World to the Next. Fielding personally supervised the compiling of Miscellanies, and it was his only privately published ("Printed for the Author") work. Contemporary bookplate of George Garnier on the front paste-downs, below which is the modern book label of Louis and Anne Marie Davidson, designed in the style of Reynolds Stone (and perhaps by him).