first edition
1975 · Middletown, CT
by FIELDING, Henry (text); COLEY, W.B. (editor)
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. First American Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (23.75cm); red cloth, blocked and titled in burgundy and gilt on spine; dustjacket; xc,515,[1]pp. Upper corners bumped (though still sharp), mild crimping to upper edge of textblock at some of the center gatherings; contents clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $22.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears, and corresponding wrinkling to upper corners; Very Good+. "The present volume centres around the third of Fielding's four periodical journals, The Jacobite's Journal (1747-8), and includes also the texts of two rare political pamphlets which had their source in the Pelham coalition" (from front flap). (Inventory #: 55623)