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Henry Fielding

Male : Novelist & playwright. Lived a life of excess. Married the wealthy Charlotte Cradock of Salisbury in 1734, and went through her money in 3 years. Plagued by gout and dropsy he went to Lisbon for his health but died there after two months
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Sharpham Park, Nr Glastonbury, Somerset

Date of Birth : 1707 Date of Death : 1754 Age : 47

Other Work : Barrister 1740

Education : Eton & Leyden Univ (Law)
1728-1730
The Masquerade
(1728) - poem
Love in Several Masques : A Comedy
(1728 John Watts, London)
Offered in 1992 for £235
The Temple Beau : A Comedy
(1730 J watts)
Tom Thumb : a Tragedy
(1730) (1731 re-titled The Tragedy of Tragedies)

1731-1740
The Lottery : A Farce
(1732 for J Watts)
The Miser : A Comedy
(1733 J Watts, London)
The Universal Gallant, or the Different Husbands - A Comedy
(1735 for J Watts, London)
Pasquin : A Dramatic Satire on the Times
(1736 J Watts, London)
The Historical Register for the Year 1736
(1737 J Roberts, London) - Anon

1741-1745
The Champion - containing a Series of Papers
(1741 J Huggonson, London) 2 vols.
- with James Ralph. Anon
An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews
(1741)
[A parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela - 1st Novel]
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
(1742 A Millar) - 2 vols. Anon
[Filmed in 1977]
The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
(1743) (1754 A Millar, London)
The Wedding Day : A Comedy
(1743 for A Millar, London)
Miscellanies
(1743) - 3 vols
The True Patriot and Related Writings
(1745-6)

1746-1750
A Compleat & Authentick History of the Rise, Progress & Extinction of the Late Rebellion
(1747 for M Cooper, London) - Anon
The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings
(1747-8)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
(1749 A Millar) - 6 vols
[Filmed in 1963]
A True State of the Case of Basavern Penlez, who suffered on account of the Late Riot in the Strand
(1749 for A Millar)
Offered in 1992 for £275
The Letter Writer, or a New Way to Keep a Wife at Home
(1750 J Watts, London 2nd Ed)

1751-1800
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers & Related Writings
(1751 for A Millar)
(1751 for A Millar. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1992 for £240
Amelia
(1751, dated 1752 for A Millar, London) - 4 vols. 5000 copies of the 1st Ed were printed
[Andrew Millar paid Fielding £1000 for this book]
Covent Garden Journal
(1752)
A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning
(1753 A Millar. 2nd Ed)
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
(1755 A Millar, London)
Offered in 1992 for £225
Works
(ed Arthur Murphy) (1762 A Millar) - 4 vols
Works : With Life
(1766 London. 3rd Ed) - 12 vols
The Works
(1771 Strahan, Rivington) - 8 vols
The Fathers, or The Good Natur'd Man
(1778 T Cadell, London) - Anon

19thC
Works
(ed AM, revised Alexander Chalmers) (1806) - 10 vols
The Works .. with an Essay of His Life & Genius
(1808 for J Johnson, London. New Ed) - 14 vols
The Works
(1871 London. New Ed) - 10 vols. Edited by James P Browne
The Works : Edited with a Biographical Essay by Leslie Stephen
(1882 Smith Elder) - 10 vols. 1000 for Europe
The Novels
(1884 Routledge) - 5 vols. Ltd Ed 500
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
(1892 Chiswick Press) - 500
The Works
(ed George Saintsbury) (1893 London) - 12 vols. 150 Herbert Railton & E J Wheeler

20thC
An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews
(1926 Golden Cockerel Press) - 450
An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews
(1930 Minority Press, Cambridge)
A Journey from this World to the Next
(1930 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500. Denis Tegetmeier
The Wesleyan Edition of the Works
(1967 Clarendon Press) - edited by W B Coley et al

Editions of Joseph Andrews
1st Edition : 1742 A Millar - 2 vols
Offered in 1992 for £580
2nd Ed : 1742 A millar - 2 vols
3rd Ed : 1743 A Millar - 2 vols. 12 plates by James Hulett
4th Ed : 1749 A Millar - 2 vols. 12 plates by James Hulett
5th Ed : 1751 A Millar - 2 vols. 12 plates by James Hulett
6th Ed : 1762 A Millar - 2 vols. 12 plates by James Hulett
8th Ed : 1768 Millar & Cadell. 12 plates by James Hulett
(1792 Murray & Sibbald, Edinburgh) - 8 plates by Thomas Rowlandson
Offered in 1992 for £250
1832 Cochrane - 2 vols. George Cruikshank
1857 London Edition - Phiz
1904 Routledge - George Cruikshank
1910 Everyman Edition
1929 Scholartis Press, London. - 80 signed by J Paul De Castro
1929 John Lane, Bodley Head Edition - Norman Tealby
1953 Folio Society - Derrick Harris
1970 Fraser Press, London - 1500

Editions of Jonathan Wild
1st Ed : 1743 PP by subscription
(as Vol 3 of Miscellanies)
2nd Ed : 1754 London - 1st separate edition
1782 Harrison : Engravings by J Stothard
1850 Charles Daly : Phiz
1905 Routledge
1930 Golden Cockerel Press - 500. Dennis Tegetmeier
1932 Golden Cockerel Press - 350. Dennis Tegetmeier
1943 Ltd Eds Club, NY - 1500 signed by T M Cleland
1966 Folio Society - Frank Martin

Editions of Tom Jones, a Foundling
[A comic novel - six parts are set in the country, six on the inns of the road, and six in London
It is said that Millar paid Fielding £200 for this book]

1st Ed : First Issue : 1749 A Millar - 6 vols
Offered in 1992 for £2800
1st Ed : Second Issue : 1749 A Millar - 6 vols
2nd Ed : 1750 A Millar - 4 vols
3rd Ed : 1750 A Millar - 4 vols
1773 Strahan - 4 vols
1791 for J L Legrand, Basil - 4 vols
1800 Cooke : 3 vols
1805 Cooke - 3 vols. Thomas Rowlandson
1823 Cooke - 4 vols. Robert Westall
1831 Cochrane - 2 vols. George Cruikshank
1909 Everyman - 2 vols
1930 John Lane, Bodley Head - G Spencer Pryse
1931 Limited Editions Club US - 1500 signed by Alexander King
1952 Ltd Eds Club, NY - 1500 signed by T M Cleveland - 2 vols
1959 Folio Society - Derrick Harris
1964 Faber : Tom Jones- A Screenplay
1974 Clarendon Press - 2 vols
1979 Franklin Library - William Small

Amelia
1st Ed : 1752 A Millar - 4 vols
1780 Novelist's Magazine - 4 vols
1793 C Cooke, London - 3 vols
1802 Walther, Dresden - 2 vols
1832 Cochrane : 2 vols - George Cruikshank
1857 London. Phiz
1876 Bohn Novelist's Library - George Cruikshank
1905 Routledge Classics - 2 vols. George Cruikshank
1926 : Shakespeare Head Press - 3 vols
1930 Everyman - 2 vols
1995 Folio Society - Simon Brett

Collected Editions
The Works of Henry Fielding
1st Ed : 1762 A Millar - 4 vols
Offered in 1992 for £280
1766 Edition : London 12 vols
1806 London : 10 vols. edited by A Chalmers
1845 Henry Bohn : George Cruikshank
1871-2 London : 10 Vols. Edited by J P browne
1882 Smith Elder : 10 vols. Edited by Leslie Stephen. 1250 sets. William Small
1893 Dent : 12 vols. 250 sets. Edited by George Saintsbury
1898-9 Constable : 12 vols. 750 sets. Edited by Edmund Gosse
The Works
(1902-3 London. New edition) - 11 vols
Complete Works
(ed W E Henley, et al) (1903 Heinemann) - 16 vols
The Works
(edited by George Saintsbury) (1926 Navarre Society) - 12 vols

The Novels of Henry Fielding
1926 Shakespeare Head Press, Basil Blackwell, Oxford - 10 vols. 1030
1995 Folio Society : 4 vols. Simon Brett & Frank Martin

READING
Leslie Stephen : In His Hours in a Library, Series 3
(1879)
Austin Dobson : Fielding
(1883)
G M Godden : Henry Fielding - A Memoir including newly Discovered Letters & Records
(1910 London) - 250 signed
Wilbur L Cross : The History of Fielding
(1918 Yale UP) - 3 vols
Aurelien Digeon : Les romans de Fielding
(1923 Paris, tr 1925)
Ronald S Crane : The Concept of Plot & the Plot of Tom Jones
(In Critics & criticism - ed crane)
(1952 Chicago)
F Holmes Dudden : Fielding - His Life, Works & Times
(1952 Oxford) - 2 vols
J Middleton Murry : In Defence of Fielding
(In His Unprofessional Essays) (1956)
Irvin Ehrenpreis : Tom Jones
(1964 Edward Arnold)
Hamilton Macallister : Fielding
(1967 Arco)
Patrick Pringle : Henry and Sir John Fielding - The Thief Catchers
(1968 Dennis Dobson)
Pat Rogers : Henry Fielding - A Biography
(1979 Paul Elek, London)
H George Hahn : Henry Fielding - An Annotated Bibliography
(1979 Scarecrow Press, NJ)
L J Morrissey : Henry Fielding - A Reference Guide
(1980 G K Hall, Boston)
Martin C Battestin : Henry Fielding - A Life
(1989 Routledge)
Donald Thomas : Henry Fielding
(1990 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Related Writers

George Cruikshank
Edinburgh
Folio Society
Golden Cockerel Press
Phiz


See also

Eighteenth Century Books
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics