[Richardson, Samuel].

12mo, first edition, 4 volumes, contemporary calf rebacked with new spines retaining original handwritten paper labels, spines in compartments, some spotting, browning and soiling, a few minor tears or minor loss (page numbers on K8 of volume two, for example)

The first volume is signed "Kitty Percival" and a ?later booklabel for "Thomas Percival, Esquire" is present in all four volumes. The owner may have been Thomas Percival (1740-1804), the English physician, best known for his creation of the first modern code of medical ethics or Thomas Percival (1719-1762) the antiquary.

Rothschild 1745

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A fine first edition copy of Richardson's best-selling epistolary novel featuring Pamela's original diction (later revised by the author with the removal of lower-class idioms from her speech).

This fine set includes all the features noted in the Rothschild copy as follows. Volume one: Letter XXVII (p. 81) is misnumbered XXVI, p. 16 is misprinted 61 and the 5 is missing in the pagination of 295. Volume three: the catchword on p. 32 is misprinted 'A' for 'As'. Volume four: the catchword on p. 120 is not repeated on p. 121, the catchword on p. 426 is missing and p. 4 is unpaginated.

In these copies, the catchword on p. 233 is 'Her' and the catchword 'it' is present on p. 324, as with the Rothschild copy. (It is noted that 'Hre' is sometimes present and the catchword occasionally missing).