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Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of Familiar Letters
Author: Samuel Richardson (English, 1689–1761)
Engraved by: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773)
After: Francis Hayman (English, 1708?–1776)
After: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773)
Publisher: John Osborn (English, died in 1775)
Publisher: John Rivington (English, 1720–1792)
Engraved by: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773)
After: Francis Hayman (English, 1708?–1776)
After: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773)
Publisher: John Osborn (English, died in 1775)
Publisher: John Rivington (English, 1720–1792)
1742
Place of Publication: London, England
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 29 engravings
Dimensions
Overall (each vol.): 21 x 13.6 x 4.5 cm (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1514a-d
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
London: J. Osborn and John Rivington, 1742
Catalogue Raisonné
Cohen-de Ricci 891; William M. Sale, Samuel Richardson--A Bibliographic Record (New Haven: 1936), nos. 10 & 17.
Description(London: J. Osborn and John Rivington, 1742) Octavo, four volumes; [v.1] 226 leaves, plus 7 plates; [v.2] 222 ll., plus 9 pls.; [v.3] 260 ll., plus 5 pls.; [v.4] 250 ll., plus 8 pls.; contemporary gilt-stamped speckled brown calf.
Illustrations to Richardson's novel.
Vols. 1-2 are the sixth edition; vols. 3-4 are with imprint "The Third Edition" (though published the same year). Fifteen of the plates are engraved by Gravelot after his own designs; the rest are after drawings by Hayman. The British Museum owns six of Gravelot's drawings for this edition; the Houghton Library owns four.A French edition was published by Osborn in the same year. There are advertisements by Osborn and Rivington bound at the end of vols. 2 and 4.
The plate for vol. 3, p. 11, is mistakenly bound in vol. 2, p. 2.
The MFA has a second copy, accession number 37.1782a-d.
Illustrations to Richardson's novel.
Vols. 1-2 are the sixth edition; vols. 3-4 are with imprint "The Third Edition" (though published the same year). Fifteen of the plates are engraved by Gravelot after his own designs; the rest are after drawings by Hayman. The British Museum owns six of Gravelot's drawings for this edition; the Houghton Library owns four.A French edition was published by Osborn in the same year. There are advertisements by Osborn and Rivington bound at the end of vols. 2 and 4.
The plate for vol. 3, p. 11, is mistakenly bound in vol. 2, p. 2.
The MFA has a second copy, accession number 37.1782a-d.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1924 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.