Price: $600
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752 [i.e. 1751]. First Edition, second state, with the misprint “the at Folly” corrected to “at the Folly” in volume 3. 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..... Read More Item Details for Amelia Add to Wish List
Item #9476
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[New York]: Illustrated Modern Library (Random House), [1943]. Read More Item Details for The History of Tom Jones A Foundling Add to Wish List
Item #369809
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London: A. Millar, 1751. Second edition. Second edition with revisions of Fielding's most important social tract, written as chief magistrate, "the most remarkable of his social tracts — a work as important for what it reveals about his temperament and character as for the remedies it prescribes for the disorders..... Read More Item Details for An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, &c. With Some Proposals for Remedying This Growth in Evil. The Present Reigning Vices are Impartially Exposed; and the Laws That Relate to the Provision for the Poor. and to the Punishment of Felons are Largely and Freely Examined Add to Wish List
Item #339582
Price: $750
New York: Croscup & Sterling, [1902]. Limited edition, 3184 of 1000. Read More Item Details for The Complete Works of ... The Novels in Seven Volumes and The Plays and Poems in Five Volumes, The Legal Writings in One Volume. The Miscellaneous Writings in Three Volumes. With an Essay on the Life, Genius and Achievement of the Author, By William Ernest Henley Add to Wish List
Item #310404
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London: A. Millar, 1752 [but 1751]. First edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in vol. III, p. 191. 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..... Read More Item Details for Amelia Add to Wish List
Item #308443
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London: A. Millar, 1749. First edition. The first edition of Fielding's masterpiece, arguably the greatest English novel of the 18th century. Demand for Fielding's novel was so great that all 2,000 copies of the first edition were bought up by the trade before the book's publication on 28 February 1749..... Read More Item Details for The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Add to Wish List
Item #308219
Price: $1,250
London: A. Millar, 1755. First edition. First edition of Fielding's last book. Two editions appeared in 1755, with the same title-pages: one (this) edition was clearly an edited text; the other version was unedited, and set from the manuscript. The unedited text was suppressed and did not reappear until the..... Read More Item Details for The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon Add to Wish List
Item #308071
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London: A. Millar, 1753. First edition. First edition of Fielding's proposal, in the face of the inadequacies of the Poor Laws, to establish country workhouses to shelter, educate and employ the poor. The Proposal builds on Fielding's Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751), in which..... Read More Item Details for A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, for Amending Their Morals, and for Rendering Them Useful Members of the Society. To Which is Added, a Plan of the Buildings Proposed, With Proper Elevations. Drawn by an Eminent Hand Add to Wish List
Item #308069
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London: A. Millar, 1751. Second edition. Second edition with revisions of Fielding's most important social tract, written as chief magistrate, "the most remarkable of his social tracts — a work as important for what it reveals about his temperament and character as for the remedies it prescribes for the disorders..... Read More Item Details for An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, &c. With Some Proposals for Remedying This Growth in Evil. The Present Reigning Vices are Impartially Exposed; and the Laws That Relate to the Provision for the Poor. and to the Punishment of Felons are Largely and Freely Examined Add to Wish List
Item #308068
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London: A. Millar, 1749. First edition. First edition of Fielding's defense of the government's controversial decision to hang the young wig maker Bosavern Penlez after his involvement in riots at several London bawdy houses. Fielding, as chief magistrate, was responsible for quelling the riots, and it was his disclosure that..... Read More Item Details for A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, Who Suffered on Account of the Late Riot in the Strand. In Which the Law Regarding These Offences, and the Statute of George the First, Commonly Called the Riot Act, are Fully Considered Add to Wish List
Item #308063
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London: M. Cooper, 1747. First edition. The last of Fielding's political tracts, a response to an anti-ministerial pamphlet — An Apology for the Conduct of a Late Celebrated Second-Rate Minister — that posed as the apology of Thomas Winnington, a prominent Whig and member of the government. "Winnington" claims that..... Read More Item Details for A Proper Answer to a Late Scurrilous Libel, Entitled, An Apology for the Conduct of a Late Celebrated Second-Rate Minister Add to Wish List
Item #308062
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London: M. Cooper, 1745. First edition. First edition of the second of three anti-Jacobite tracts written by Fielding in October 1745 in response to the rebellion in Scotland. The work purports to be derived from the eyewitness account of Highlander James Macpherson, "entirely a figment of Fielding's imagination" (Battestin, p...... Read More Item Details for The History of the Present Rebellion in Scotland. From the Departure of the Pretender's Son from Rome, Down to the Present Time … Taken from the Relation of Mr. James Macpherson … Add to Wish List
Item #308060
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London: J. Watts, 1741. Second London edition. The second authorized London edition, a close reprint of the 1737 Roberts edition. By the time this edition was published, Fielding had ended his dramatic career, effectively silenced by the Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737, which censored the stage and limited theatrical performances..... Read More Item Details for The Historical Register for the Year 1736. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. To Which is Added a Very Merry Tragedy, Called Eurydice Hiss'd, or, A Word to the Wise Add to Wish List
Item #308051
Price: $350
London: J. Watts, 1733. First edition. First edition of Fielding's adaptation of Molière's L'Avare, the most successful of his "regular" comedies. With an epilogue by Colley Cibber. Read More Item Details for The Miser. A Comedy. Taken from Plautus and Moliere. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane Add to Wish List
Item #308045
Price: $2,500
London: J. Roberts, 1730. First edition. First edition of Fielding's third play, a comic ballad opera in the mold of Gay's Beggar's Opera; it ran for 41 nights in its first season and was subsequently revived. "In March 1730 at the Little Haymarket Theatre he had his first popular success..... Read More Item Details for The Author's Farce; and the Pleasures of the Town. As Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Scriblerus Secundus Add to Wish List
Item #308039
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London: J. Watts, 1730. First edition, ordinary paper issue. First edition of Fielding's second play, written upon his return to London following nearly two years on the Continent. The Temple Beau was turned down by Drury Lane — where two years earlier Fielding, with the help of Lady Mary Wortley..... Read More Item Details for The Temple Beau. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields Add to Wish List
Item #308038
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London: John Watts, 1728. First edition. First edition of the 20-year-old Fielding's first play and his second surviving publication. "Fielding's career as dramatist began auspiciously enough when, as an unknown author in his twentieth year, his first play, the comedy Love in Several Masques, was staged by Cibber at Drury..... Read More Item Details for Love in Several Masques. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal … Add to Wish List
Item #308036
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London: For A. Millar, 1755. First edition (edited), with the half-title. First edition of Fielding's last book. Two editions appeared in 1755, with the same title pages: one (this) edition was clearly an edited text; the other version was unedited, and set from the manuscript. The unedited text was suppressed..... Read More Item Details for The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon .. Add to Wish List
Item #30623
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London: James Cochrane, 1831. Cruikshank, George. First Cruikshank Edition. Vols V & VI. With a cartoon of Santa Claus by the owner Claude Smith. New Yorker cartoonist laid in. Read More Item Details for The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling...with a Memoir of the Author by Thoms Roscoe, Esq Add to Wish List
Item #304998
Price: $1,250
London: For A. Millar, 1755. First edition. First edition of Fielding's last book. Two editions appeared in 1755, with the same title pages: one (this) edition was clearly an edited text; the other version was unedited, and set from the manuscript. The unedited text was suppressed and did not reappear..... Read More Item Details for The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by the Late … Add to Wish List
Item #260267
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London: Published by J.M. Dent & Co at Aldine House in Great Eastern Street, 1893. One of 750 sets. Read More Item Details for The Works of ... Edited by George Saintsbury Add to Wish List
Item #259834
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a Londre: Chez Jean Nourse, 1750. First Edition in French. Pierre-Antoine de la Place (1707-93) was famous as the author of the compendious "Théâtre Anglais" (1745-48), in which a number of plays by Shakespeare first appeared in French, and he was a great admirer of Fielding. According to Cross, La..... Read More Item Details for Histoire de Tom Jones, ou L'Enfant Trouvé. Traduction de l'Anglois de M. Fielding par L.D.L.P. [Pierre Antoine de La Place]. Enrichie d'estampes dessinées par M. Gravelot Add to Wish List
Item #245819
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London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1752 [i.e. 1751]. First edition, second state, with the misprint "the at Folly" corrected to "at the Folly" in vol. III, p. 191. Fielding's last novel, and a commercial failure. His publisher felt confident that "Amelia" would be as successful as "Tom..... Read More Item Details for Amelia Add to Wish List
Item #244363
Price: $1,250
London: A. Millar, 1755. First edition, with half-title. First edition of Fielding's last book. Two editions appeared in 1755, with the same title pages: one (this) edition was clearly an edited text; the other version was unedited, and set from the manuscript. The unedited text was suppressed and did not..... Read More Item Details for The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon .. Add to Wish List
Item #244279
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Westminster: Printed by the Chiswick Press for Archibald Constable & Co, 1898-9. One of 750 sets. Read More Item Details for The Works of ... With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse Add to Wish List
Item #3745