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1762 · Paris
by RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mézières (1713-1792) – Henry FIELDING
Paris: Brocas & Humblot, 1762. 3 vols. in one, 12mo (162 x 97 mm). [2] ll., 176 pp.; [2] ll., 208 pp.; [2] ll., 271 pp. Fine. Contemporary French mottled calf, flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece, edges stained red (foot of spine slightly chipped).***
First Edition of Mme. Riccoboni’s free adaptation of Fielding’s novel. Riccoboni was among the pioneering 18th-century female novelists who earned a living from their writing. Published the same year as a more faithful French translation, by Mme. de Pisieux, Riccoboni's abridged and altered version omitted Fielding's "longueurs" (Gay), "cleaned up" his prose, turned commoners (truncated)
First Edition of Mme. Riccoboni’s free adaptation of Fielding’s novel. Riccoboni was among the pioneering 18th-century female novelists who earned a living from their writing. Published the same year as a more faithful French translation, by Mme. de Pisieux, Riccoboni's abridged and altered version omitted Fielding's "longueurs" (Gay), "cleaned up" his prose, turned commoners (truncated)
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