1785 Samuel Richardson CLARISSA OR, THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY:

8volumes set, leather bound
CLARISSA; OR, THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY: COMPREHENDING THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCERNS PRIVATE LIFE. AND PARTICULARLY SHEWING THE DISTRESSES THAT MAY ATTEND THE MIS CONDUCT, BOTH OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN, IN RELATION TO MARRIAGE. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION. LONDON: 1785
(Following text shamelessly lifted from Amazon)

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, "Clarissa" is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels.