Author: FIELDING Henry
Title: The Adventures of Joseph Andrews. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. [With an introduction by T. Roscoe. The Novelist's Library]. IN THE ORIGINAL SERIES MOIRE BOARDS
Description: James Cochrane,, 1832. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates, frontispiece mildly age-soiled with some light offsetting to title, plates mildly age-soiled; original series binding of ivory moiré boards, backstrip with two labels blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, very neatly recased, a bright, clean, crisp copy. Complete with printed series title [The Novelist's Library vol. VII]. THIS IS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE CRUIKSHANK ILUSTRATIONS COMMISSIONED BY ROSCOE FOR THIS SERIES IN 1831. See Evans pp.77-79. COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL (AND FRAGILE) SERIES BINDING ARE SCARCE.

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