Author: FIELDING Henry
Title: The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great. To which is added a contemporary Life of Jonathan Wild. Also J.W.'s Advice to his Successor; and Proposals for an Hospital for decayed and infirm Thief-Takers. [Illustrated by Phiz, pseud. Hablot K. Browne]. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Description: Charles Daly,, 1840. Sm. 8vo. with engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates (mildly age-soiled); strongly bound in original green ribbed cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, pictorial gilt back, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a most attractive, bright, clran, crisp copy. With the blind trade stamp of Thos Johnson of Manchester on rear free endpaper. The first version of Fielding's rumbustious tale illustrated by Phiz. Printed by Bensley of Woking, this is not the more usual Churton issue of the same year. VERY SCARCE.

Keywords: literature, fielding, henry fielding, phix, hablot browne, jonathan wild


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