The Adventures of Joseph Andrews
FIELDING, Henry
With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. [With an introduction by T. Roscoe. The Novelist's Library].
IN THE ORIGINAL SERIES MOIRE BOARDS
Published: James Cochrane, 1832
Stock code: 27825
Price: £124.00
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.