Shelfmark
Em.6.01 - Em.6.02
Author
Richardson, Samuel, 1689 - 1761 printer
Title
Pamela: or, virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel, to her parents. Now first Published In order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has its Foundation in Truth and Nature; and at the same time that it agreeably entertains, by a Variety of curious and affecting Incidents, is intitely divested of all those Images, which, in too many Pieces calculated for Amusement only, tend to inflame the Minds they should instruct. In two volumes. The second edition. To which are prefixed, extracts from several curious letters written to the editor on the subject. Vol. I.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for C. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Osborn, in Pater-noster-Row, MDCCXLI [1741].
Physical description
2v ; 17cm. (12mo.)
Note
Anonymous. By Samuel Richardson.
Note
Pagination: xxxviii, 296; [2], 396p.
Citation/references note
ESTC T110967
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1983. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 229, no. 2).
Provenance
Previously owned by David Watkin.
Binding
18th-century brown calf; double gold fillet to form a border; five raised bands.
Subject
Master and servant Fiction.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Osborn, John, ? - d. 1739 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Watkin, David, 1925 - 2008 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B19023