Bibliographer: Isabel Newlin

THE | HISTORY | OF THE | ADVENTURES | OF | JOSPEH ANDREWS, | And his FRIEND | Mr. ABRAHAM ADAMS. | Written in Imitation of | The Manner of CERVANTES, | Author of Don Quixote. | [line 73 mm] | By HENRY FIELDING, Esquire. | [line 73 mm] | Illustrated with CUTS. | [line 73 mm] |  THE NINTH EDITION, revised and corrected. | [line 73 mm] |  IN TWO VOLUMES. | [two lines 73 mm, 1 mm apart] | LONDON: | Printed for J. and F. RIVINGTON, W. STRAHAN, | T. LONGMAN, S. CROWDER, R. HORSFIELD, | T. LOWNDS, T. CASLON, T. BECKET, | T. DAVIES, and T. CADELL. | [line 25 mm] | M.DCC.LXIX.

Volume I 226p; Volume II 226p. 12mo. 

Contents. Volume I. A1^r title, A1^v blank, A2^r-A4^v contents, a1^r-a6^v preface, B1^r-L5^v text, L6^r-v advertisement

   Volume II. A1^r- A2^v contents, B1^r-L6^v text

Notes. Copy is from Shipley Farm, PA. Handwritten: ‘iq # 2’ (pp. A1^v). “pour M Guibald” inscribed on top of A1^r, the first pp. of the contents in Vol II, and at the top of the Title pp. in Vol I. in very faint ink. At the end of Vol I, list of 16 “BOOKS printed for T. CADWELL, Successor to Mr. MILLAR, in the Strand.” Of these, only #13, “Barford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of Letters, 2 vols.” seems to be a novel. Vol I, misprinted pagination: pp. 30 is written as pp. 36. Watermark UDENS on the last page of Vol II. Plates in Vol I after C3, E2, G8, H12, and K3; and in Vol II after D4, D10, F5, G11, I4, and L3. Inscription at beginning of Vol I. suggesting that the key to all Fielding’s works is encoded in the catchwords at the bottom of the pages (the front or r side). The accompanying series of photographs documents this key.