An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews : in which, the many notorious falshoods and misreprsentations of a book called Pamela, are exposed and refuted ; and all the matchless arts of that young politician, set in a true and just light : together with a full account of all that passed between her and parson Arthur Williams, whose character is represented in a manner something different from what he bears in Pamela. The whole being exact copies of authentick papers delivered to the editor. Necessary to be had in all families / by Mr. Conny Keyber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

Contributor:

Dodd, Anne, bookseller.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Shamela

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761--Parodies, imitations, etc.

Richardson, Samuel.

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Pamela.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, v-xv, 59 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

s,e- f.r, n;er wofa (3) 1741 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for A. Dodd, at the Peacock, without Temple-bar, MDCCXLI [1741]

Notes:

Head- and tail-pieces.

Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁴ F².

Conny Keyber = Henry Fielding.

Shamela is Henry Fielding's parody of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela."

This edition published April 4, 1741. A second edition compressed and printed on 56 pages was issued on. Nov. 3, 1741--Cf. W.L. Cross ... Fielding, vol. 3, pages 303-304.

With a preliminary half-title page.

Price on half-title page, between brackets: "(Price One Shilling and Six-Pence.)."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy imperfect: copy wanting half-title page (leaf A1) and all after page 56 (leaves F1-F2). The missing leaves are supplied in facsimile and laid in at end.

Singer-Mendenhall copy housed in modern cloth folder within cloth case.

Singer-Mendenhall copy unbound and uncut with original stitching as issued.

Singer-Mendenhall copy acquired from Arthur Freeman Rare Books and Manuscripts in 2016.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue T89852

OCLC:

54154583