The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq; with the Life of the Author [by Arthur Murphy].
Fielding Henry (1762)
£1200.00
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"Second Edition". 8 vols. 8vo. Engraved medallion portrait of Fielding by Basire after William Hogarth. Some light browning of the text; offset from the portrait onto the title of vol. 1. Contemporary calf, marbled endleaves (all volumes rebacked in the mid-20th-century with old-style gilt tooling and morocco endleaves (some endleaves foxed/spotted).London: for A. Millar,
In fact, largely a reimpression from standing type of the first collected edition published in the same year in four quarto volumes.
A handsome set with early 20th-century bookplates of George Harwood.
Stock Code: 62149
