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FIELDING, HENRY. Miscellanies. Volume 2.. London: A. Millar, 1743.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. Volume 2 only (of 3). 8vo, pp. 420:(2), contemporary full speckled calf; joints cracked but firm, lettering piece chipped. Damp-marking & mold marking unattractively affecting first 80 pages and lower margin of remaining leaves. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart. (1717-1755)
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rebound. Later endpapers. 18th century owner's inscription on title page: "1780 from J. Smith to Edwd. Selby". Some minor dampstains and foxing.; Volume Two only of Miscellanies. [2], 420, [2] pages. Rebound by amateur binder in half leather and marbled paper. Page dimensions: 220 x 130mm. Contents of this volume: A Journey from This World to the Next; Eurydice; The Wedding-Day.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7. Three volumes complete. Original leather with raised bands to spine. Rubbing and edge wear to bindings with the front board to volume I partially detached. Attractive p/o 19th-century bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Bindings rubbed and worn. Contemporary p/o signature to top of each title page. A handsome set.
Seller: Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$340.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Many pieces published in first edition here, in this collection made by, and printed for, the author himself. The first only, of three volumes, recently bound in three-quarter dark brown calf, with marbled boards and new endpapers, seven bands to spine, no labels. With ornaments and occasion illustration. Happy to send photos on request.
Seller: Polyanthus Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [10], 421 p. 21 cm. Full leather. Hinges cracked, spine ends chipped, corners bumped, fore-edges dented. Ink signature on title page. Some signatures jutting out a little with roughened edges.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Fielding, Henry. Miscellanies. A. Millar, London, 1743.
Price: US$585.00 + shipping
Description: 354, 420, 421 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. First issue with list of subscribers in Vol. 1. A little more than a year after the publication of "Joseph Andrews," he issued by subscription these three volumes. CBEL Vol. 10, pp. 26-27. "The first volume contains a preface. largely autobiographical, followed by some poems.early compositions of the heart rather than the head.The second volume contains more interesting matter: the long Lucianic fragment, "A Journey from this World to the Next." which begins with some of Fielding's happiest satire in the coach-driver of the spirits from earth.In the third volume, he printed the most brilliant piece of work that he had yet achieved, "The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great." Generally clean, lower corner of G1 in Vol.1 torn away not affecting text, tiny ink stain, title of Vol. II, overall; fresh, firm set, raised bands, red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Full modern dark brown calf in period style. Fine. 3 vols
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes, 8vo, pp [4], [22. subscribers], xxvii, [1], 354: [2], 420, [2]: [10], 421, [1], bound in contemporary full calf, rubbed and a bit worn at spine ends, all joints restored, reinforced or refixed internally or externally with leather ribbon repairs, minor dust soiling, one blank corner chipped, one endpaper replaced, else very clean and sound internally, FIRST EDITION, the subscription issue, printed at Fielding's expense. A 'Second' but trade edition, reprinting this one without the list of subscribers and with 'For the Author' ommitted, appeared shortly after in the same year. Fielding's major undertaking was suported by a long subscription list, including 15 royal paper copies to the Prince of Wales; It includes two of Fielding's major prose works - 'A Journey from this World to the Next' in volume two, and 'The LIfe of Mr Jonathan Wild', which comprises the whole of volume three. For the rest, there are various poetry and prose effusions some of which had been published, though not previously acknowledged as Fielding's works.
Seller: J & S WILBRAHAM, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition. Front board partially detached, boards rubbed, bumped, and discoloured, leather on spine cracked and chipped with minor loss to spine ends. Small holes to gutters of prelims, perhaps biological, some staining and foxing to endpapers, front gutters a little strained, however, apart from the occasional spot or small smudge, pages good; clean and tidy. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$748.00 + shipping
Description: The first volume contains Fielding's youthful poems and some essays, preceded by a 22 page "List of Subscrebers" (sic) to the edition. The second volume is the first appearance of "A Journey from this World to the Next, etc.," and the third volume is the first appearance of "The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great." In addition to these noteworthy first appearances, Fielding's "Miscellanies" is important for the minor pieces it collects under Fielding's name, as the authorship of many of these had not previously been documented. Near fine in later bindings with leather spines and fore corners. Spines have five raised bands with gilt-stamped titles, rules, and ornaments. Top edges gilt. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Minor rubs and scuffs to extremities. Attractive set. Half leather and brown cloth over boards. Octavos. [24], xxvii, 354; [ii], 422; and [x], 421 pages
Seller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary smooth brown calf, marbled endpapers, spines in six compartments with gilt decorations, brown and black morocco spine labels, gilt lettering. 22-page list of subscribers. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time, including his novel The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild (one of the great works in the literature of roguery) and A Journey from This World to the Next. Fielding personally supervised the compiling of Miscellanies, and it was his only privately published ("Printed for the Author") work. Contemporary bookplate of George Garnier on the front paste-downs, below which is the modern book label of Louis and Anne Marie Davidson, designed in the style of Reynolds Stone (and perhaps by him). Edges a little rubbed; one label chipped; a few hinges starting, but sound; very good copy in contemporary state. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09
Seller: Brick Row Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. Miscellanies,; . .. Printed for the Author and sold by A. Millar, London, 1743.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Three vols, 8vos; [26] xxvi (i.e. xxxvii), [1], 354; [ii], 420, [2]; [x], 421pp; contemporary calf with red and black spine labels. The first publication of several shorter works, including notably The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild and A Journey from This World to the Next. Cross III/308-209. Wear to joints and edges; neat bookplates, with discreet owner's signature on the front pastedown of the first volume; front board of same detached.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. Three volumes. I: [ii], [ii], [xxii], xxxvii, (mis-paginated [i]-xxxii, xxxi, xxviii, xxix, xxvi, xxvii)), [i], 354pp. (p.255 mis-paged 154); II: [ii], 420, [ii]pp.; III: [x], 421, [i]pp. I: A8, a5, b8-c8, d3, AA8, B8-Y8, Z1; II: []1, B8-Z8, Aa8-Dd8, Ee3; III: []1, a4, B8--Z8, Aa8-Dd8, Ee3. First edition, first issue. Half-titles not called for; general and volume title, List of Subscrebers [sic], and author's Preface precede fly-title to first piece in volume one; volume title only to other volumes, as called for. Twentieth-century half brown morocco over cloth. All edges gilt. A fair number of pieces appear here for the first time, most notably The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great and A Journey from This World to the Next; the presence of others serves to establish Fielding's authorship, which might otherwise have remained uncertain. ESTC N11032.
Seller: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, U.S.A.