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THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING
by Fielding, Henry
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London: A. Millar, over-against Catharine-street in the Strand, 1749. First edition. Fine, lovely condition, outer hinges of Volume I professionally repaired. First edition. Six volumes. 12mo, lxii, errata, 214p; (ii) 324p; 370p; (ii), 312p; (ii), 294p; (ii), 3049. Complete with appropriate cancels. Bound in full speckled calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines densely gilt with red and black title and date labels, the covers with triple fillet rules and floral corner pieces, dentelles. (Penciled note on flyleaf of Vol I. reads "collated perfect, B. Quaritch...").
Ashley Library Catalogue, II, p 115-116: Grolier English One Hundred, No. 48.
Ashley Library Catalogue, II, p 115-116: Grolier English One Hundred, No. 48.
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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- Title
- THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING
- Author
- Fielding, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, lovely condition, outer hinges of Volume I professionally repaired
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- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- A. Millar, over-against Catharine-street in the Strand
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1749
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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