Shelfmark
Iaa3.1.03
Author
Title
The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams : written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote / by Henry Fielding, Esq.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; W. Lowndes; Scatcherd and Letterman ... [and 51 others in London, York and Edinburgh], 1820.
Physical description
[4], vii, [5], xxxii, 395, [1] p. ; 16 cm. (18mo)
Series statement
(British novelists ; v. 18)
Note
Title from volume half-title; imprint from series title page.
Note
Series title: The British novelists, with an essay, and prefaces biographical and critical, by Mrs Barbauld. A new edition. Vol. XVIIII.
Note
Printer statement on series title verso and colophon: C. Baldwin, printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London.
Note
Table of contents (pp. [i]-vii) followed by two blank leaves.
Binding
19th-century red straightgrained morocco; gold-tooled palmette and anthemion border and blind-tooled foliate inner border; gold-tooled spine; olive endpapers; double fore-edge painting, the first side with portrait of Henry Fielding and view of Sharpham Park on first side, and the reverse with portrait of Baron Lyttelton and view of Eton College based on Canaletto (1754).
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the biographical preface (prelim. pp. [i]-xxxii).
Genre/Form
Novels.
Genre/Form
Fore-edge paintings.
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F., C. and J. Rivington publisher.
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England London.
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England York.
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Scotland Edinburgh.
Identifier
B47193