Title: Five new novels, viz. I. The Twins; or, The Female Traveller. II. The Stepmother; or Good Luck at Last. III. The Inhuman Uncle; or, The Repentant Villains. IV. The Virgin Widow. V. Adrastus and Olinda; or, Love’s Champion [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Five new novels, viz. I. The Twins; or, The Female Traveller. II. The Stepmother; or Good Luck at Last. III. The Inhuman Uncle; or, The Repentant Villains. IV. The Virgin Widow. V. Adrastus and Olinda; or, Love’s Champion. Written by W. R. Chetwood, Prompter to His Majesty’s Company of Comedians at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane; and Author of Faulconer, Boyle, and Vaughan’s Voyage, &amp;c.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>

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8vo. ff. [9] (blank), pp. [8], 104, ff. [2] (blank). Calf. Repaired, gilt spine with black lettering panel. Head-and tailpieces, historiated initials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of Chetwood’s rarest work of fiction, a collection of five tales written in King’s Bench Prison, where he was incarcerated for debt in 1740. He was free at the date of his preface (20 February 1741), but by the end of the year had emigrated to Dublin, which may explain the neglect of the volume in England: only four copies are located by ESTC. See ESTC, N6830.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991041310369707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>