01113cam a2200301 a 4500 198912 20141120170537.0 851212s1767 enk 00000 eng d (OCoLC)ocm16108965 (OCoLC)16108965 (CStRLIN)PAUG85-B43952 (CaOTULAS)121281030 ABC3787 198912 PU PU PR3291.A1 A2816 1767 12/12/85 CT The Adventures of an author / written by himself and a friend : in two volumes. The adventures of an author. Letter-press Half Work v.1 The adventures of an author. Letter-press Half Work v.2 The adventures of an author. Written by himself and a friend. In two volumes. Vol. I. Letter-press Full Volume v.1 The adventures of an author. Written by himself and a friend. In two volumes. Vol. II. Letter-press Full Volume v.2 London Printed for Robinson and Roberts, No 25. in Paternoster-Row. MDCCLXVII. 1767. 2 v. ; 17 cm. (12mo) Duodecimo In two volumes. Bookplate, v.2, front paste-down endpaper, reads: "Thomas Tipping". Likely a relative of person whose name is inscribed v.1. Library-related marginalia; pencil; words and numbers; v.1 and v.2; verso back free endpaper. Library-related marginalia; pencil; words and numbers; v.2; back paste-down endpaper. Adjacent, "Singer Mend'Hall Collec" stamped in ink. Card with handwritten information about the work, signed g. Dr. Mendenhall in a plastic envelope. No running title. Instead, page numbers printed center of top margin, verso and recto of each leaf. Printer Robinson VIAF authorized as the elder George Robinson, as the elder did not take his son George into partnership until 1784, according to Dictionary of printers and boooksellers 1726-1775 (Plomer, Bushnell and Dix). Printer Roberts does not have individual VIAF record, although under corporate entry with Robinson, John Roberts is given as alternate name form of Roberts. Death date from Dictionary of printers and boooksellers 1726-1775 (Plomer, Bushnell and Dix). Narrative includes frequent, direct address of the reader and meta discussion of authorship. ESTC (RLIN) T85909 Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 1060 Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) I, p. 2 Introduction Chap. I. Introduction. Front v.1 Introduction is structured as chapter 1. Transcription: "The ideas of authorship and poverty are so immediately connected, that after a man has once read Locke, and understood him, they are ever after looked upon as a part of the same complex idea of mixt modes. I would, however, endeavour analytically to separate them, and by deduction prove, that it is possible for a man, though he may be infected with a very inveterate cacoethes scribendi, to be possessed of a clean shirt and a guinea." Table of contents Contents. Front v.1 Transcription: "Chap. III. A sketch of the present practice of the law, and the miserable state of thirty thousand limbs; attempted to be controverted by an anecdote of a certain great man. 16" Table of contents Contents. Front v.2 Transcription: "Chap. I. The Coffee-house chapter. Page 1" Third-person First-person Several chapters at the beginning of v.1 are in first-person; narrative then slips into third-person. Poems, short letters, and a "Journal of a modern man of taste" (v.1, p.154) are interspersed with third-person narrative form and dialogue. Joseph Tipping Ink Front paste-down endpaper v.1 Ink Words Numbers v.1 v.2 Half TP, transcription: "The Junior Pamphlett Club N.79" Pencil Words v.2 Located recto front free endpaper. Transcription: "Adventures of an auth" Pencil Words Numbers v.1 Located front paste-down endpaper. Pencil Words Numbers v.2 Located front paste-down endpaper. Author (text) Generic/Descriptive Adventures of an author. Written by himself and a friend. Title page Male Identity of work's author(s) unknown. Author (paratext) Generic/Descriptive ...I hope reader, gentle, or ungentle, you are satisfied with your master of the ceremonies, who, Sir Clement like, will usher you into the preference of the Author, without any farther punctilio or etiquette. Introduction Male Identity of work's author(s) unknown. %CHR 1767 %PRO Tipping, Joseph (autograph) %PRO Tipping, Thomas (bookplate) (vol. 2) Tipping, Joseph Inscribed by Unauthorized Tipping, Thomas Author (bookplate) Unauthorized Robinson, G. (George) 1719-1801 Printed for Authorized Roberts, John -1776 Printed for Unauthorized Robinson and Roberts Printed for Authorized Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania) PU Early Novels University of Pennsylvania RBC \\Singer-\Menden-\hall\ 2 v. 12/12/85 C RBC 1:v.1 50-549 g. John C. Mendenhall 12/12/85 C Adventure Author Write Friend Two Volume KGP 7/7/15 Haverford College NB