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The History of Tom Jones A Foundling
by Henry Fielding
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". T. M. Cleland. Two smart limited edition copies of this illustrated version of Tom Jones, signed by the artist. A limited edition copy, with this being number 255 of 1500. Signed by the artist to the editions page. A complete two volume set. Henry Fielding was an English writer whose style often incorporated humour and satire. The History of Tom Jones A Foundling is a comic novel that was one of the earliest English works to be considered a novel. With frontispieces and illustrated title pages with fifteen colour plates to volume one and eighteen to volume two and both have in-text colour plates. Collated, complete. Previous owner bookplate to the front endpapers of both volumes for Cyrus Max Adler and John Nomland. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with light marks to the head and tails of the spines and some fading to the spine labels. Signed by the artist to the editions page. Previous owner bookplate to the front endpapers of both volumes for Cyrus Max Adler and John Nomland. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed
Synopsis
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding's revisions Introduction discusses narrative tecniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolution
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 864B46
- Title
- The History of Tom Jones A Foundling
- Author
- Henry Fielding
- Illustrator
- T. M. Cleland
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 10" by 7"
- Keywords
- The History of Tom Jones A Foundling Henry Fielding fiction Henry Fielding
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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