Author: FIELDING, Henry
Title: Amelia.
Description: London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752 [1751]. 12mo. 4 vols. Vol. 1: xii, 285p. Vol. 2: viii, 262. [1]p. Vol. 3: ix, 323p. Vol. 4: vii, 296p. 19th-century calf with binders' ticket 'Bound by Cecil & Larkins for F.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, joints and at head and foot of spines. Joints a little loose and inner joints strengthened sympathetically with narrow strips of blue buckram to match the marbled endpapers. 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 293-296 of vol. 4 (carefully repaired and with no loss of text). Bookplate of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke on all front pastedowns. ***** First edition 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.

Keywords: English


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