Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple

8vo. 1747. 1st ed. 2 vols in 1. (viii)146(2)184. Intended as an epistolary continuation of David Simple. Preface and Letters xl-xliv are by her brother Henry Fielding. ESTC N9649 ascribes chronological priority to this Dublin edition. (ad lf at end of vol 1, dated May 28th,1747, Dublin) and is much scarcer than the London edition of the same year. Age toned but clean in original full calf. A bit edge worn and hinges split but holding. With the book-plates of Steuart of Allanton 10th laird 1715-72 (a leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment) and Austin Dobson (poet & biographer of Henry Fielding and other eighteenth century literary figures).