[FIELDING] | The Adventures of David Simple, 1744

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

[FIELDING, SARAH]

The Adventures of David Simple: containing an account of his travels through the cities of London and Westminster, in the search of a real friend. For A. Miller, 1744

2 volumes, 12mo, woodcut head-and-tail pieces, contemporary calf, spine gilt with morocco label gilt, light internal browning, spotting mostly to preliminaries

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL.

Sarah Fielding's previous publications were a contribution to her brother Henry Fielding's early novel Joseph Andrews (1742) and a fictional autobiography of Anne Boleyn, which appeared as the last chapter in her brother's A Journey from This World to the Next (1743).

LITERATURE:

ESTC T115675

PROVENANCE:

George Baillie (1644-1738), engraved armorial bookplate applied posthumously; Grisell Bailie, ownership inscription; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington

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