Pamela [or, Virtue Rewarded]: Volume One only (of two) (Everyman's Library #683) by RICHARDSON, Samuel - 1942

London / New York: Everyman's Library: J. M. Dent / E. P. Dutton. Good with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. A 1942 reprint of the 1914 issuance. Volume one only (of two) of author's 18th-century novel, which is the story of a maid who attempts to ascend through marriage to upper-class society. Samuel Richardson, a contemporary of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding, was a printer and publisher who turned to writing fiction after age 50. With an introduction by George Saintsbury. Entry 683 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's Library binding style 3 with full carmine cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and faded brown topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With dampstain to cloth near front joint, mildly sunned spine and creases to first leaf, else a sound, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xi, 463 pages .