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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. London 17139 first edition. Jonah Bowyer. Black line trim around titlepage. 24p. Now in later plain wraps. 12mo. Some contemporary ink notation on rear end paper. Good plus.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

xlvi, 182; [2], 225, [1] ads; [2], 230pp, engraved frontispiece erroneously inserted in vol. III by the binder. 12mo. Lightly foxed & sl, browning. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines lettered & tooled in gilt, pink e.ps; minor surface wear, extremities rubbed, one head cap & foot of spine chipped, otherwise a handsome copy. Copac records a single copy at the BL; OCLC adds copies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Australian National University. The last copy to sell at auction was in 1970. The first edition of Thomas Bellamy's final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1800, and completed by his friend, the novelist, Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real Gooch, 1757-1807. Her writing career began in the later eighteenth century with a pamphlet justifying her role in the quarrel with her estranged husband William Gooch who had abandoned her in Lille in 1778, and which landed her in debtors' prison. From this she moved on to further life-writing (courtesan autobiography), published poetry, further works which blended autobiography with fiction and finally to sentimental novels. Self-vindication and the need for money were her chief motives, but she had a real gift for expressing both mood and argument. Reviewers gradually shifted over the course of her career from sympathy to contempt. It is unclear how much of the novel she wrote, possibly the whole of the third volume. The Monthly Mirror, vol. XII, July 1801, wrote that 'we are of the opinion that Mr Bellamy's share in the work did not extend further than the middle of the second volume'. The novel forms a picaresque narrative of the life of Alfred, the Beggar Boy, abandoned by his mother, who, after enduring numerous hardships, is ultimately saved by a kindly family.

First edition, folio (310 x 190 mm), 6pp., title page with 'Dr. Thomas Gooch' added in ink in a early hand, disbound. William Chase I (1692-1744), a Norwich printer, bookseller and bookbinder, was instrumental in establishing the Norwich Mercury as a prominent publication in the city. After his death in 1744, his wife Margaret continued the business until her son, William Chase II (1728-1781) took over in business 1750. Of the seven published works printed by Margaret Chase that are listed in ESTC, this is the only one that gives her full name rather than 'M. Chase'. ESTC locating a single copy in the UK (Lambeth Palace) and just the University of North Carolina in the US.