Fielding, Henry.

Amelia. A. Millar, 1752, 4 volumes, 12mo, first edition, advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, contemporary calf, vol.4 N4-8 proud--Don Quixote in England. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. For J. Watts, 1734, 8vo, first edition, 15 songs with music, modern gilt calf, gilt edges--An Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c. with some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil. A. Millar, 1751, 8vo, first edition, modern gilt calf--The Intriguing Chambermaid. A Comedy of two acts. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. Taken from the French of Regnard, by Henry Fielding, Esq. For J. Watts, 1734, 8vo, first edition, 12 songs with music, modern boards--The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. A New Edition with considerable Corrections and Additions. A. Millar, 1754, 12mo, modern speckled calf, upper cover and title page partially detached--Miscellanies. A. Millar, 1743, 3 volumes, 8vo, first edition, list of subscribers in vol.1, speckled calf, rebacked--The Miser. A Comedy. Taken from Plautus and Moliere. For J. Watts, 1733, 8vo, first edition, modern half morocco, browning--The Modern Husband. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. For J. Watts, 1732, 8vo, first edition, with epilogue and 5 pages of advertisements, modern wrappers--The Temple Beau. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. For J. Watts, 1730, 8vo, first edition, modern morocco backed boards--The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by the late Henry Fielding, Esq., For A. Millar, 1755, 12mo, first edition (1st published but 2nd printed edition), speckled calf, worn at joints--The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq; with the Life of the Author. For W. Strahan et al., 1771, 8 volumes, 8vo, later speckled calf, worn at joints (11 works in 23 volumes)

Miscellanies: Thomas Blakiston, bookplates; The Miser: Donald and Mary Hyde, bookplate

Rothschild 853, 857; Case, III, pp.298, 321-2, 297-8, 325-6, 308-9, 297, 294-5, 290, 326

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Two impression of Amelia are known to have been published in December 1751 and January 1752, but no distinguishing characteristics have been recorded. Miscellanies, Fielding's only book published by subscription, includes the first publication of Jonathan Wild in volume 3.