Henry Fielding's "Covent-Garden Journal" (1752) and "A Plan of the Universal Register-Office"(1751) are discussed, reflecting his moral, literary and social ideas during the final years of his life.

The present text of the Journal, incorporating a recent discovery of revisions in Fielding's hand, offers in an appendix a column about Fielding's magistracy not previously reprinted. Other appendices provide a complete record of all textual amendations.

Abbreviations. Part 1 General introduction: "A Plan of the Universal Register-Office
the register office and the background of the "Covent-Garden Journal"
the "Covent-Garden Journal". Part 2 Textual introduction: the copy-text and its treatment
the apparatus
collation. Part 3 "A Plan of the Universal Register Office". Part 4 The "Covent-Garden" Journal". Appendices: two columns of doubtful authorship from the "Court of Censorial Enquiry"
the "Modern History" columns
list of emendations - "A Plan..."
list of substantive emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal"
list of accidentals emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal", "Covent-Garden" columns, "Court of Enquiry" columns of doubtful authorship
historical collation - "A Plan..."
historical collation - "Covent-Garden Journal"
corrections and revisions in the Bodleian copy of the "Covent-Garden Journal"
textual notes
word-division
press-variants and bibliographical descriptions. Index.