Henry Fielding / Donald Thomas
1900, First Edition. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #430946
ISBN: 0297811274
Physical description; x, 436 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Somerset and 'Sweetly-winding Stour", 1707-18 -- The colonel's children, 1718-29 -- A very low condition of purse, 1729-30 -- The good-natured libertine, 1730-34 -- England's Molière, 1730-34 -- A Salisbury romance, 1734-36 -- The festival of the golden rump, 1736-37 -- A word or two from the ampitheatres, 1737-41 -- The shy-cock, 1740-42 -- Joseph Andrews and his friend, Mr Abraham Adams, 1742 -- Be hanged or be a prime minister, 1742-43 -- The school of distress, 1744 -- Lose not a moment in arming yourselves!, 1745-46 -- So solemn a contempt, 1747-48 -- And is a wench having a bastard all your news?, 1748-50 -- The dirtiest money upon earth, 1749-51 -- The witnesses against Amelia, 1751-52 -- The defence of a poor little girl, 1753 -- A voyage to Lisbon, 1754. Subjects; Fielding, Henry 1707-1754. Fielding, Henry. Fielding, Henry 1707-1754 Knowledge Psychology. Fielding, Henry 1707-1754 ; Biography. Fielding, Henry 1707-1754 Criticism and interpretation. 1700-1799. Authors, English 18th century ; Biography. Justices of the peace England ; Biography. Authors, English. Justices of the peace.
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