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FIELDING, HENRY. Amelia ( Volume 1 Only ). A. Millar, 1752.

Price: US$40.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: xxii plus 285 pages Volume 1 only ( of 4 ). Full calf leather 5 raised bands on the spine. Titale label missing. The odd spot of foxing sporadically throughout. No previous ownership markings.

Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, tywyn, United Kingdom

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. Volume II Only.. A. Millar,, London, 1752.

Price: US$44.84 + shipping

Description: 263pp. Front board missing but still well bound from title page to end board. Interior in nice clean condition. Offered for rebind. Picture of this book available.

Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom

Henry Fielding. Amelia Vol. III. A, 1752.

Price: US$62.05 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1752. A. Millar. Hardcover/Leather. GOOD Gilt titles. Leather boards. Pages very clean for age of book. Text can be read. Foxing. Previous owners name. Spine cracked. 7x5

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. A. Millar, 1752.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: In fair condition. Binding copies. Text blocks in good shape with light toning. All pages intact. Volume I: Front board is becoming detached. Spine split. Pages splitting from binding as a result. Abrasions and soiling to marbled boards. Leather is scuffed and dry. Previous owner s name on front paste down. Volume II: Front board is detached. Scuffing and abrasions to marbled board. Leather dry and scuffed. Spine label missing. Previous owner s name on front paste down. Unmarked. Binding shaken. Volume III: Both boards detached. Spine creased. Label missing from spine. Abrasions and scuffing to marbled boards. Previous owner s name on front paste down. Unmarked. Volume IV: Front board detached. Previous owner s name on front paste down. Boards scuffed with dryness to leather. Unmarked. Protected from further damage in modern slipcase. Henry Fielding s last novel and a commercial failure. His publisher felt confident that Amelia would be as successful as Tom Jones, and, after an initial printing of 5,000 copies in December 1751 (the largest recorded for any 18th-century novel), ordered a second impression before the first sold out. Unfortunately, only the first day was a success, and after that sales dropped off drastically. FORN-Shelf-562-RAREB1752JMNA-variant

Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.

FIELDING, Henry.. Amelia.. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752 [1751]., 1752.

Price: US$519.82 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo. 4 vols. Vol. 1: xii, 285p; A6 B-N12 (wanting final blank leaf N12). Vol. 2: viii, 262, [2]p; A4 B-M12 (M12 present with Universal-Register-Office advert on M12r). Vol. 3: ix, 323p; A6 (wanting the blank leaf A6) B-O12 P6. Vol. 4: vii, 296p; A4 B-N12 O4. 19th-century calf with stamps 'Bound by Cecil & Larkins for E.W. Stibbs'. Covers decorated with a triple-fillet gold border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spines with red leather title labels and green leather volume number labels; gilt turn-ins; yellow-edged leaves; marbled blue endpapers. Slight rubbing at corners, some wear at joints and at head and foot of spines. Joints loose and strengthened sympathetically with narrow strips of blue buckram to match the marbled endpapers. Very occasional faint spot on a couple of pages in each volume. Small paper flaw in outer margin of pages 1-2 in vol. 2 (not affecting text); likewise in outer margins of pages 1-4 of vol. 3 (not affecting text); two clean tears in pages 293-6 of vol. 4 (carefully repaired and with no loss of text). Bookplate on all front pastedowns of [Sir] Henry Francis Redhead Yorke (1842-1914, midshipman, Director of Victualling at the Admiralty), designed by Harry Soane, London. ***** First edition (2nd impression, with misprint 'the at Folly' corrected to 'at the Folly' in vol. 3, page 191) of Amelia, Fielding s favourite child , a novel of social protest and an experiment in new techniques, especially in irony and in subtle characterisation. Robert Alter argues that the novel pioneers the masterful interlocking of separate lives through shared experience that gives Middlemarch such remarkable coherence - 'Fielding's problem novel' in his 'Fielding and the nature of the novel' , pp.141-178. The Rothschild Library: a catalogue, 853. H. Fielding, Amelia, edited by M.C. Battestin (Appendix VII: Bibliographical descriptions, pp.583-4). ESTC t089846.

Seller: Jack Baldwin Rare Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. Printed for A. Millar, London, 1752.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Description: 4 v. in 2 t.p. of v. 4 torn with some lose. 1 page of ads at end of v. 2. Good condition! in worn calf! backstrip cracked

Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. Printed for A. Millar, London, 1752.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in volume 3. 4 vols. 12mo. Fielding's Last Novel. Fielding's last novel, and a commercial failure. His publisher felt confident that "Amelia" would be as successful as "Tom Jones," and, after an initial printing of 5,000 copies in December 1751 (the largest recorded for any 18th-century novel), ordered a second impression (published January 1752) before the first sold out. Unfortunately, only the first day was a success, and after that sales dropped off drastically. Rothschild 853 Contemporary polished calf gilt, spine in six compartments with red morocco lettering-piece gilt, red-sprinkled edges, in morocco-edged cloth sliding case. Joints cracking, upper cover of volume 4 detached First Edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in volume 3.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. A. Millar, London, 1752.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: 18mo, 4 volumes. Vol 1: [xii], 285 pp. • Vol 2: [viii], 262 pp. • Vol 3: [ix], 323 pp. • Vol 4: [vii], 296 pp. Full leather bindings, red gilt lettered spine labels, all edges gilt, very good to fine condition. (76696). Gilt armorial book-plates of John Pierpont Morgan on pastedown of each volume.

Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

FIELDING, Henry.. Amelia. In four volumes.. Printed for A. Millar. 1752 [i.e. 1751], 1752.

Price: US$714.75 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st impression. xii, 285, [1]p; viii, 262pp; ix, [i], 323pp; viii, 296pp. 12mo. Some light foxing & browning, early German institutional stamp on first & fourth titlepages. Bound without final ad. leaf Vol. II, or final blank Vol. I, blank verso of final leaf Vol. III backed with near contemporary grey sugar paper, probably remnant of an original binding. Early 20th century dark blue pebble-grained morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered spines, gilt dentelles. t.e.g. ESTC T89846. Fielding's last novel. The issue with the fourth line of p.191 in Vol. III uncorrected, and reading "the at Folly" which was subsequently changed to "at the Folly."

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, London, 1752.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in vol. III, p. 191. xii, 285, [1], [2, blank]; viii, 262, [2, Universal Register Office ad]; ix, [i], 323, [1]; vii, [i], 296 pp. 4 vols. 12mo. Fielding's Last Novel. Fielding's last novel, and a commercial failure. His publisher felt confident that "Amelia" would be as successful as "Tom Jones," and, after an initial printing of 5,000 copies in December 1751 (the largest recorded for any 18th-century novel), ordered a second impression (published January 1752) before the first sold out. Unfortunately, only the first day was a success, and after that sales dropped off drastically. Rothschild 853 Nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, spine labels (detached from vols. I & II), spines darkened. Very good xii, 285, [1], [2, blank]; viii, 262, [2, Universal Register Office ad]; ix, [i], 323, [1]; vii, [i], 296 pp. 4 vols. 12mo First edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in vol. III, p. 191.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. A. Millar, London, 1752.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in vol. III, p. 191. xii, 285, [1]; viii, 262, [2, Universal Register Office ad]; ix, [i], 323, [1]; vii, [i], 296 pp. 4 vols. 12mo. Fielding's Last Novel. Fielding's last novel, and a commercial failure. His publisher felt confident that Amelia would be as successful as Tom Jones, and, after an initial printing of 5,000 copies in December 1751 (the largest recorded for any 18th-century novel), ordered a second impression (published January 1752) before the first sold out. Unfortunately, only the first day was a success, and after that sales dropped off drastically. Cross III, p. 321; Rothschild 853. Provenance: Horace Davy (1833-1907), Baron Davey, English judge and politician (bookplate); Clement K. Shorter (1857-1926), English journalist and critic (bookplate) 19-century mottled calf, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, morocco spine labels in two, a.e.g., by Tout. Extremities rubbed, two hinges tender, in two custom cloth clamshell boxes xii, 285, [1]; viii, 262, [2, Universal Register Office ad]; ix, [i], 323, [1]; vii, [i], 296 pp. 4 vols. 12mo First edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in vol. III, p. 191.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

FIELDING (Henry). Amelia.. London: Printed for A. Millar., 1752.

Price: US$1072.13 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, second state. 4 volumes. 12mo, 161 x 97 mms., pp. [vi] vii - xii, 285 [286 blank]; [ii] iii - viii, 262 [263 adverts, 264 blank]; [ii] iii - ix blank], 323 [324 blank]; [ii] iii - vii [viii blank], 296, with the faulty text "the at Folly" changed to "at the Folly" in volume 3, page 191. contemporary calf, recent reback in later calf, red morocco label, new end-papers; some marginal worming in volume 1, several leaves throughout both volumes closely shaved without loss, but a reasonably good set of Fielding's last novel. Although the date on the title-page is 1752, the novel was published on 19 December 1751. Many of the comments focused on the fate of Amelia's "lovely Nose," which was "beat all to pieces," when a chariot overturned. Broken, ruined, or missing noses and their iconographic portrayal often associated the bearer or the nose, or the not-nose, with venereal disease. Fielding's narrative makes no mention of a surgical repair to the those. The author and botanist John Hill (1714 - 1775) attacked Amelia in the London Daily Advertiser on 8 January 1752 where he claimed that the book's title character "could charm the World without the Help of a Nose." Rothschild, 853.

Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom

FIELDING, Henry. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752.

Price: US$1104.61 + shipping

Description: First edition, four volumes, 12mo. Modern full morocco, a lovely set. Rothschild 853. Volume III is second state with "at the Folly" corrected on p.191.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

FIELDING Henry. Amelia. for A Millar 1752, 1752.

Price: US$1169.59 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: four volumes, modern half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, leather labels, advertisement leaf volume II, scattered spotting and off-setting, ownership signature at head of title-pages, minor fraying to leading edge of two leaves volume IV, a nice set. according to Rothschild there were two impressions of the first edition, one in December 1751, the other in January 1752 but no distinguishing characteristics have been recorded; in this copy page 221 is incorrectly numbered 211 in volume II and page 39 is unnumbered in volume III; first edition; 285, 262, 323 and 296 pages Rothschild 853

Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Fielding Henry. Amelia. By Henry Fielding, Esq; In Four Volumes. , 1752.

Price: US$1234.57 + shipping

Description: First Edition. 4 vols.xii, 285, [2 (blank)]; viii, 262, [1 (advertisement)]; ix, [i (blank)], 323; vii, [i (blank)], 296 12mo. Handsome copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, covers with a single gilt fillet borders, spine with the bands outlined with a single gilt fillet, numbered in gilt in the third panel (short cracks in some joints, slight rubbing, heacap of vol. 4 broken).London: for A. Millar, Second state of vol. 3 with the correct reading ?at the Folly? on p. 191, line 4; the more common state of vol. 2 with the press-figure 109-3.Signature of ?Thos. Carew? on the title of vol. 3; circular library stamp on the title of vol. 1. erased.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

Fielding, Henry. Amelia . . .; In Four Volumes. A. Millar, London, 1752.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: 4 vols, 12mos, xii, 285; viii, 262, [1]; ix, 323; vii, 296pp; half-titles not called for, without blank leaves but with integral advertisement leaf in the rear of Vol. 2; full red crushed morocco gilt with five raised bands on spines, a.e.g. A most attractive copy of Fielding's last novel in bindings that, though unsigned, are in the manner of Riviere. Small, expert marginal repairs to first and last leaves, and two interior leaves, on Vol. 1; a few inconsequential spots of soil on covers; a lovely set.

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Fielding, Henry.. Amelia.. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752., 1752.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: Fielding's final novel. Four volumes, twelvemo. xii, 285; viii, 262, [1, advertisement for Fielding's Universal Register Office]; ix, [1], 323; vii, [1], 296 pp. Full modern antique-style mottled calf. Gilt spines with burgundy and black morocco labels. A very handsome, clean set. A former owner has made several small, neat ink notations in lower margins, comparing the readings of this edition to those of the 1762 first collected edition of Fielding's works. First edition, second state, with the corrected reading, "at the folly" in the fourth line of page 191. With the final leaf of ads in Volume II, which is frequently missing. Rothschild 853. Cross, III, p. 321.

Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Henry Fielding. Amelia. In Four Volumes. A. Millar, London, 1752.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition: retains "At the Universal Registrar Office" ad and blanks; textual error in Vol. 2, p. 189 uncorrected; textual error in Vol. 3, p. 191 corrected. 3.75 x 6.35in. Vol. 1: [2] xii. 285 [1]pp. Vol. 2: [2] viii. 262 [1, "At the Universal Registrar Office] [2]pp. Vol. 3: [2] ix. 323 [1]pp. Vol. 4: [2] vii. 296 [2]pp. Bound in full speckled calf of the period. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decoration of each compartment, and morocco title labels. Marbled text-block edges and endpapers. All 4 volumes are in VERY GOOD condition showing the extremities shelf rubbed with some loss, spine gilt slightly rubbed, hinges with extremely marginal loss from opening, blanks up to the title page with suggestions of even toning, a small chip to the margin of p. 95 of Vol. 2, otherwise the bindings are strong, the text-blocks are exceptionally clean and unmarked, and the boards remain distinct. As pictured.

Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. Printed for A. Millar, London, 1752.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Description: First impression with dropped pagination to page 22 of volume one, but with second impression correction to page 191 line four ("at the Folly") of volume three. With the often lacking Universal-Register-Office advertisement at end of volume two (M12r). Four twelvemo volumes ( 6 9/16 x 3 7/8 in; 167 x 99 mm). Collating xii, 285, [1, blank]; viii, 262, [1, adv.], [1, blank]; ix, [1, blank], 323, [1, blank]; vii, [1, blank], 296. Contemporary full sheepskin. Gilt rolled edges. Original black morocco spine labels. Sprinkled edges. With the armorial bookplates of Aluredi Baronis De Braye of Leicester. Original owner's small, neat signature to upper corner of title pages. Bound without the terminal blank to volume one (N12). Scuffing to all volumes, some loss to spine heads of three volumes. Loss of sheepskin at upper spine and to upper board to volume three, as well as loss to spine label. A few gatherings a bit proud. Otherwise a respectable copy in the original, contemporary binding. Housed in a clamshell box. Amelia, in contrast to Fielding's earlier books, Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, is concerned with married tenderness and family happiness, the characters of Capt. Booth and his wife, Amelia, bearing comparison in temperament to Fielding and his wife, Charlotte, though the Fieldings' circumstances were no where near as dire: The book is "set in and against a London of almost unrelieved squalor, corruption and violence.it sold extremely well, but was attacked by many, led by Richardson and Smollett, and Fielding made alterations to later editions. It was his own favorite among all his books" (OCEL). In terms of its print history: "There were two impressions, Strahan printed 5,000 copies of vols. I and III in Dec. 1751, and 3000 copies of the same volumes in Jan. 1752.Printer of vols. II and IV unknown. Vols. I and III differ from vols. II and IV in paper, in fonts used for title-pages and for table of contents, and incidentally in other respects. The two impressions perhaps indistinguishable" (Cross). Rothschild 853. Cross III, 321-22.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

FIELDING, Henry. Amelia. In Four Volumes. Printed for A. Millar, In the Strand, London, 1752.

Price: US$2800.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Four volumes. 12mos. xii, 285; viii, 262, [1]; ix, 323; vii, 296pp. With the final blank leaf present in Vol. 1, and final advertisement leaf: "At the Universal-Register-Office" present in Vol. 2. This copy also has the pagination dropped on p. 22 of Vol. 1., and line four of p. 191 in Vol. 3 is in the corrected state. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines, edges speckled red. Contemporary small owner's name in ink on each title page; illustrated bookplate of Helen Augusta Clark on each front pastedown. Front joints of Vols. 1 and 2 lightly cracked, Vol. 1 has slight vertical crack on spine and shallow loss at tail of spine, lacking the final free endpaper in vols. 1 and 2 only, very good overall. A handsome set, scarce in full contemporary calf.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Fielding Henry. AMELIA. London for A. Millar 1752, 1752.

Price: US$3850.00 + shipping

Description: 4 volumes. First Edition, with the rare final leaf "At the Universal-Register-Office" present at the end of Volume II and the final blank N12 in Volume I present. 12mo, handsomely bound in contemporary polished calf, the spines with raised bands and contrasting red and black morocco lettering labels gilt, the bands ruled in gilt. xii, 285, [2]; vii, 262,[1 ad];ix, 323; vii, 296 pp. A very handsome set, the contemporary bindings in a wonderful state of preservation, the tight and clean text essentially free of any foxing, spotting or toning whatsoever, a very desirable set with only light evidence of age or use. AN ESPECIALLY PRETTY SET OF FIELDING'S LAST NOVEL, the product of "a Fielding touched with tears, yet as much in love as ever with nobility and generosity of character, and equally full of interest in men and women" (Cambridge Hist. of English Literature X, p. 37). It is also considered by many to be the first significant novel of social protest and reform in English. It contains many allusions to classical literature and focuses on the theme of marriage and feminine intelligence, but Fielding's stance on gender issues cannot be determined because of the lack of authorial commentary discussing the matter. From the library of Cullen House. There were two impressions of the first edition, one on 19 December 1751, the second in January 1752; no distinguishing characteristics have been recorded. Rothschild No. 853. Points: Volume 2, p 189 the catchword given as "yna", rather than "any"; and Volume 3, p 191 line 4 is in the uncorrected state "the at Folly".

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.