Henry Fielding's The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love appears here as a richly annotated eighteenth-century classic: an 1760 edition of his lively adaptation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria, framed by scholarly introduction, preface, and extensive notes. Rather than a literal translation, Fielding's version is a witty, modernized imitation, shaped by his comic intelligence, classical learning, and satirical eye. The introduction traces the work's publication history and explains how Fielding recasts Roman material in the language, manners, and politics of his own age, with a visual energy often compared to Hogarth. The preface defends the poem's moral and literary value, arguing that it can instruct as well as entertain. The commentary and footnotes decode myths, Roman customs, monuments, and literary allusions, while the poem itself offers a sharp, cynical manual of seduction, probing pride, disguise, desire, and the need to read temperament and circumstance with skill. Also included is a broad survey of eighteenth-century literary culture, ranging across essays, sermons, poems, letters, satire, and criticism. Together, these materials present a vivid portrait of Augustan taste, scholarship, and wit. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.