The Novel
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A SELECT| COLLECTION| OF| NOVELS| In FOUR VOLUMES.| Written by the most Celebrated Authors| in several Languages.| Many of which never appear'd in English| before; and all New Translated from| the Originals,| by several Eminent Hands.| [line of typographical ornaments]| LONDON:| Printed for John Watts, at the Printing-Office| in Wild-Court near Lincolns-Inn-Fields.| [rule]| MDCCXX.
One of the most important anthologies of the period - the collection which did more than any competing anthology of novels to define the genre and to equip it with a canon. Huet's treatise "Upon the Original of Romances" becomes with these volumes the standard history of the novel. The collection seems to have been an immediate sucess. Other London publishers joint Watts in 1721 (though the overall titlepage was dated 1722) in an updated version of now six volumes which seem to have sold throughout the decade.
A. | 1-4.a | A Select Collection of Novels in four volumes written by the most Celebrated Authors in several Languages [...] all new translated from the Originals by several eminent hands (London: J. Watts, 1720). |
1-6.a | A Select Collection of Novels in four volumes written by the most Celebrated Authors in several Languages [...] all new translated from the Originals by several eminent hands (London: W. Mears/ J. Broterton/ W. Meadows/ W. Chetwood/ J. Lacy, 1722). [A new titlepage prefixed and two further volumes added to the existing four volumes, which appear with their original publishing dates within the edition] | |
1-6.b | "Second Edition with Additions" (1729). | |
1-6.c | "Third Edition" advertised by Chetwood's Voyages, Travels and Adventures of William Owen Gwin Vaughan as printed by J. Osborn 6 vols. |
W. H. McBurney (1960), p.42-43: 117. - ESTC: t175654. Druck: S. Croxall.
4 volumes, 12°, with seperate paginations.
1.a | frontispiece Inv.: L. Cheron; G.Vdr. Gucht sculp./ 2 farb. titlepage/ titlepage vol. 1/ [6] pp. dedication: Princess Anne; signed S.C./ [6] pp. preface
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A SELECT| COLLECTION| OF| NOVELS.| VOLUME the SECOND.| CONTAINING,| The PRINCESS of CLEVES.| The FAIR MAID of the INN.| The FORCE of FRIENDSHIP.| The HISTORY of the CAPTIVE.| [line of typographical ornaments]| LONDON:| Printed for JOHN WATTS, at the Printing-Office| in Wild-Court near Lincolns-Inn-Fields.| [rule]| MDCCXX.
2.a | frontispiece Inv.: L. Cheron; G.Vdr. Gucht sculp./ titlepage/ [4] pp. dedication: Anne Boscawen; signed: S. C.
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A SELECT| COLLECTION| OF| NOVELS.| VOLUME the THIRD.| CONTAINING,| DON CARLOS.| The HISTORY of Count BEFFOR and LEONORA DE CESPEDES.| The CURIOUS IMPERTINENT.| The PREVALENCE of BLOOD.| The LIBERAL LOVER.|The BEAUTIFUL TURK.| [line of typographical ornaments]| LONDON:| Printed for JOHN WATTS, at the Printing-Office| in Wild-Court near Lincolns-Inn-Fields.| [rule]| MDCCXX.
3.a | frontispiece Inv.: L. Cheron; G.Vdr. Gucht sculp./ titlepage/ [6] pp. dedication: Mrs. Lepel; signed: S. C./ [2] pp. "Table"
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A SELECT| COLLECTION| OF| NOVELS.| VOLUME the FOURTH.| CONTAINING,| The HAPPY SLAVE.| The RIVAL LADIES.| The INNOCENT ADULTRY.| The HISTORY of the Conspiracy of the| SPANIARDS against the Republick| of VENICE.| [line of typographical ornaments]| LONDON:| Printed for JOHN WATTS, at the Printing-Office| in Wild-Court near Lincolns-Inn-Fields.| [rule]| MDCCXX.
4.a | frontispiece Inv.: L. Cheron; G.Vdr. Gucht sculp./ titlepage/ [6] pp. dedication: Mrs. Sarah Cornish; signed: S. C./ [2] pp. Table
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{L: 12410.c.12-17 [vols. 1 and 6 not on shelf]} {O: 8°A.168-171, 196, 197 Linc.} {E: Vts.121.l.3 [øvols. 2-4]} {NA:MH: 11443.16.20 [vol. 5 (1729)]}.
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