Les avantures de Joseph Andrews, et du ministre Abraham Adams, publi'ees en anglois, en 1742. Par M... Feilding [sic], auteur de l'Enfant trouv'e; traduites en fran,cois, par l'abb'e des Fontaines, sur la troisi'eme edition.

All titles

• Les avantures de Joseph Andrews, et du ministre Abraham Adams, publi'ees en anglois, en 1742. Par M... Feilding [sic], auteur de l'Enfant trouv'e; traduites en fran,cois, par l'abb'e des Fontaines, sur la troisi'eme edition.
• History of the adventures of Joseph Andrews. French

People / Organizations

• Henry Fielding (Author)

Imprint

A Londres : Chez Meyer, M.DCC.L [1750]

Added name

Desfontaines, Pierre-Fran,cois Guyot, 1685-1745, translator.

Publication year

1750

ESTC No.

N16084

Grub Street ID

5774

Description

2 v. ([2], xvj, [4], 330; [6], 349, [1] p.) ; 12°.

Note

Translated by Pierre Fran,cois Guyot Desfontaines

The imprint is false. With page catchwords; not oversiged; roman numerals with "j". Probably printed in France, Belgium or Switzerland. Not in Weller, E. Falschen und fingierten Druckorte

Some copies of vol.1 have a variant imprint reading "Chez Miller"

Headpieces (some composed of printers' flowers); tailpieces composed of printers' flowers; woodcut initials; factotum initial

Signatures: Vol.1: pi1 a]8] e]2] A-2D]8/]4] E1. Vol.2: pi1 a]2] A-2E]8/]4] 2F]4] 2G]2] 2H1.

Uncontrolled note

Ota supplies copies to aid localisation: page catchwords; not oversiged; roman numerals with "j". CLU-S/C queried 5/96. ESTC/UK wants to know what is meant by "ill." - L copy bears no plates or illustrations (Nov. '95) - at present matched with this record. C (Leigh.d.6.108-109) do not mention plates or ill