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RICHARDSON Mr Samuel
RICHARDSON Mr Samuel  Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
for Harrison & Co 1785 (Novelist Magazine volume XX)
in a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents; published, in order to cultivate the principles of virtue and religion in the minds of the youth of both sexes; a narrative which has it's foundation in truth; and at the same time that it agreeably entertains, by a variety of curious and affecting incidents, is entirely divested of all those images, which in too many pieces calculated for amusement only, tend to inflame the minds they should instruct; to which are prefixed, extracts from several curious letters, written to the editor on the subject, ex Exeter City Library with their label front pastedown and shelf-number to base of spine, four volumes bound as one, contemporary full-leather, ruled in gilt, leather labels, minor chipping to spine extremities, upper hinge starting, corners a trifle rubbed, vignette half-title and 12 full-page copper plates, printed double column, a nice copy. 304 pages;
£120.00    (equal to approx. US$187.91* or €149.94* for 26 May 2012)

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