The Works.: With the Author's Preface, and an Introduction by G. H. Maynadier.
by FIELDING, Henry
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- Hardcover
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Gay and Bird,, 1903. A collected edition of Fielding's novels including miscellaneous writings such as plays and essays. "In breaking away from the epistolary method of his contemporary Richardson, and others", Fielding (1707-1754) "devised what he described as 'comic epics in prose', which may be characterized as the first modern novels in English, leading straight to the works of Dickens and Thackeray" (Drabble, p. 360). Twelve volumes, octavo (207 x 134 mm). Contemporary reddish-brown half morocco, spines lettered and decorated with floral design in gilt, marbled calf-grain paper boards, matching marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Frontispiece with captioned tissue guard to each volume, title pages printed in red and black. Loosely inserted typescript presentation slip from the historian Leopold George Wickham Legg (1877-1962). Spines faded, a few volumes with chipped headcaps, joints split on vols I and V, sometime repaired, book blocks square and firm, rubbing to extremities, occasional marks to binding, internally clean. A very good set. Morrissey 1903 A.3. Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion To English Literature, 2000.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170169
- Title
- The Works.
- Author
- FIELDING, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Gay and Bird,
- Date Published
- 1903
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...