The novels of Henry Fielding, Esq. … complete in one volume.. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3183586
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxv, [1], xxviii, 794 p. ; 25cm. Pencil price note: £6.6 / 10 vols [i.e. acquired and uniform with other volumes in Novelist’s library set]. Provenance: nineteenth-century Anson bookplate with motto ‘Nil desperandum’ and Viscount’s coronet (though seven pearls visible) [i.e. Thomas Anson, created Viscount Anson & Baron Soberton, 1806 (1767-1818) or his son, Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson (1795-1854), created Earl of Lichfield, 1831]. Binding: nineteenth-century half green leather (imitation morocco), with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spine; five false bands; gold lettered: Novelist’s library / I
Makers and roles
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Border Press