Pamela in 1842

[victor steinbok]

No OCR error--look in the index, p. 329

More in a moment.

VS-)

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Robin Hamilton
> <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My bad in not extracting "Pamela" from the other six lines of the title
>>> page.
>>>
>>> Joel
>>
>> Oh well, not to feel *too bad -- I never did manage to finish _Clarissa_
>> either.
>>
>> (That was partly because half-way -- no, I exaggerate, about fifty pages
>> in -- I finally found a copy of _The Drapier's Letters_ in a second hand
>> bookshop in Cromer.  Now your man Swift, he wrote like an angel, and
>> Richardson's prose simply wilted beside it.)
>>
>> Robin
>
> FYI: Google Books does contain an earlier edition of Pamela dated 1742
> with a Bodleian Library gift bookplate. The date inscription
> M.DCC.XLII is given on the title page of volume three which contains
> the phrase "Boughs of the Tree of Liberty". There is an OCR error so
> that the 1742 edition does not match the search term "tree of
> liberty". Here is a link to the passage:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=ot4NAAAAQAAJ&q=Boughs#v=snippet&q=Boughs&f=false
>

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