Novels. Viz. The Fruitless Precaution. The Hypocrites. The Innocent Adultery. The Judge in his own Cause. The Rival Brothers. The Invisible Mistriss. The Chastisement of Avarice. The Unexpected Choice. Rendered into English, with some additions. By John Davies of Kidwelly.

with an engraved portrait frontispiece, frontispiece and title laid down, the latter with minor loss to the edges, paper flaw in G1 with the loss of a few letters (sense recoverable), occasional minor staining and a few spots, tiny bit of worming in the upper margins of the first few leaves, short tear in lower margin of D1, entering text but without loss, a few headlines shaved, pp. [xvi], 404, 8vo, modern half calf, neat ownership inscription on title of W. Bradshaw, and a bold signature of his in the fore-margin of p. 270 dated March 28, 1768, good. The fourth edition in English (all translated by John Davies) of a collection of Scarron's Novels, the first to contain The Unexpected Choice. The first collection, 1665, had but four, the subsequent two, seven. All these editions are rare, this one particularly so, being recorded in ESTC at the NLW only, and that copy lacking the frontispiece. The frontispiece bears the legend: 'I am the man who, made a prey to grief, Do in her very jaws find out relief. The Cynic and the Stoic could receive, Th' unkindnesses of Fortune and not grieve. Rejoice and sport with misery there's none Could ever yet, but Comicall Scarron.' (ESTC R183261).…