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[FIELDING, Henry]. A Dialogue between the Devil, the Pope, and the Pretender. London: M. Cooper, 1745.
8° (213 x 136 mm). Half-title. (Some dustsoiling at edges.) Modern quarter calf, cloth boards, uncut. Provenance: James Dangerfield and Dan Jenkins (contemporary ownership signatures on half-title).
FIRST EDITION. This is the last of the three anti-Jacobitical pamphlets written by Fielding on the occasion of the 1745 rebellion. The devil himself dismisses the attempt of his agents, the pope and Charles Edward Stuart, to subjugate such a brave and freedom-loving nation as England. Cross III, p.312; Rothschild 846.
8° (213 x 136 mm). Half-title. (Some dustsoiling at edges.) Modern quarter calf, cloth boards, uncut. Provenance: James Dangerfield and Dan Jenkins (contemporary ownership signatures on half-title).
FIRST EDITION. This is the last of the three anti-Jacobitical pamphlets written by Fielding on the occasion of the 1745 rebellion. The devil himself dismisses the attempt of his agents, the pope and Charles Edward Stuart, to subjugate such a brave and freedom-loving nation as England. Cross III, p.312; Rothschild 846.