Cazin

First edition by Cazin. Translation by Philippe Florent de Puisieux, preferable to the free adaptation by Madame Riccoboni.
Contemporary full red morocco binding. Smooth spine decorated with 3 compartmented fleurons, roulette at head and tail. Title and volume labels in garnet morocco. Triple fillet frame on boards. Gilt edges. Signs of rubbing, notably on three upper boards in small areas. Slight lack of leather on lower board of volume II. 2 lower corners slightly bumped.
Very handsome copy, rare in this condition, bound in 5 volumes.
Third of Fielding's great novels which revolutionized English literature and left its mark until the end of the 19th century, Amelia appeared in 1751 in London. Fielding was only 45 years old but had only 3 years left to live. Among his three great novels, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia, Fielding expressed his preference for the latter. In the literary correspondence of Grimm and Diderot we read this judgment on Amelia: "M. Fielding is a very original author, great painter, always true and sometimes as sublime as Molière." Amelia is a novel of revolutionary realism for its time,

Cazin edition composed with the first edition printed by Philippe-Denis Pierre, with a half-title and a relay title bearing Cazin's address and dated 1786.
Full brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments richly adorned with gilt floral motifs, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frame of sextuple gilt fillets on boards decorated at corners with gilt fleurons, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt dentelle on pastedowns, gilt fillets on leading edges, all edges gilt, elegant nineteenth-century binding.
A handsome copy with very wide margins and perfectly established.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. One of the rare titles with the false Amsterdam imprint.
Publisher's binding in full marbled blonde sheep. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title-label. Triple fillet frame on boards. A tear to the spine. Small lacks to joints at foot and one to upper board. Edges gilt.

Second edition and first published by Cazin, with two volumes added; a first edition in 4 volumes was published in Geneva in 1782. Musical scores at the end of volumes. Only volumes 5 and 6 contain no musical score, the songs being sung to airs already noted in the other volumes, which are identified by the air numbers. 48pp. of musical scores in volume 1; 48pp. in volume 2; 38 in volume 3; 40 in volume 4.

Later brown half-sheep binding (1800). Smooth spine decorated with three fleurons and fillets. Red morocco title-label with roulettes. Red morocco volume label in a roundel. Marbled paper boards. Rubbing to headcaps and joints. Corners slightly bumped.