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The Novels of Samuel Richardson. With a life of the author, and introductions, by William Lyon Phelps.
NOVELS OF SAMUEL RICHARDSON
New York: Croscup & Sterling Company, [1901].
20 vols., 8vo (9ΒΌ" tall). Half royal blue crushed
morocco by RIVIERE. Raised bands on spine, with gilt
tooling to panels. Marbled boards and top edge gilt.
Lavishly illustrated with fine engraved plates,
including frontispiece plates in two states (one
hand-coloured). Very pretty engraved half-titles,
printed in red and black. An immaculately presented set.
ONE OF 15 NUMBERED COPIES of the Founders' Edition,
from an edition of 306 copies printed on Holland
hand-made paper. Richardson was a leading eighteenth
century literary figure and famously established the
letter form (epistolary technique) as a new literary
style in his celebrated novels, Pamela and Clarissa.
Pamela is also often credited as being the first
English novel. The History of Sir Charles Grandison
was another of his most important and popular works;
it was said to have greatly influenced Jane Austen,
who wrote that she remembered "every circumstance" in
the novel, everything "that was ever said or done".
£2800.00
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