Accession number
PML 140037-38
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Published
A Londre [i.e. Paris] : Chez Jean Nourse, 1750.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
4 v. bound in 2.
Pagination: v. 1: [4], xi, [1], 336 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 344 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 282 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 341, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates.
Signatures: v. 1: pi², a⁶, A-O¹²; v. 2: pi², A-O¹², P⁴; v. 3: pi², A-L¹², M⁸, N¹; v. 4: pi², A-O¹², P³.
La Place's abridged version of: History of Tom Jones.
1st ed. in French, 1st ed. published in France (see Battestin and Bowers).
Illustrations by H.F. Gravelot, engraved by F.A. Aveline, P.Q. Chedel, and J.J. Pasquier.
Note at bottom of p. ix, v. 1, states that the "moral discourses" at the beginning of each of the 18 books are omitted, but will be published in a "separate little volume" (apparently never issued).
Pagination: v. 1: [4], xi, [1], 336 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 344 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 282 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 341, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates.
Signatures: v. 1: pi², a⁶, A-O¹²; v. 2: pi², A-O¹², P⁴; v. 3: pi², A-L¹², M⁸, N¹; v. 4: pi², A-O¹², P³.
La Place's abridged version of: History of Tom Jones.
1st ed. in French, 1st ed. published in France (see Battestin and Bowers).
Illustrations by H.F. Gravelot, engraved by F.A. Aveline, P.Q. Chedel, and J.J. Pasquier.
Note at bottom of p. ix, v. 1, states that the "moral discourses" at the beginning of each of the 18 books are omitted, but will be published in a "separate little volume" (apparently never issued).
Description
4 v. in 2 : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Provenance
Louis-Hilaire Du Bouchet (armorial binding); Fl. Tulkens (bookseller's ticket); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary calf, gold-tooled, with armorial medallion.
Classification
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