Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. As New with no dust jacket. 1980. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full blue leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering or decoration in each compartment, intricate gilt decoration on both covers, marbled endpapers, printed on archival paper, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth sewn, and with concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. Illustrated with full-page full-color plates by Thomas Rowlandson. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. . Color Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xvii), 736 pp .

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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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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 17351
Title: THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING
Author: Fielding, Henry
Illustrator: Thomas Rowlandson
Format/Binding: Leather
Book Condition: New As New with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition Thus. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Franklin Library
Place of Publication: Franklin Center, PA
Date Published: 1980
Keywords: Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Bilfil, Mr. Allworthy, pamphlet, Romantic Comedy, Jacobite, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Erotic

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