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Tom Jones, ou, Histoire d'un enfant trouvé / par Fielding ; traduction nouvelle et complète ; ornée de douze gravures en taille-douce. Tome premier [-quatrième]

Accession number
PML 140151-54
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Published
Paris : Imprimerie de Firmin Didot frères ..., 1833.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Translated into French by the Comte de La Bédoyère.
Additional publishers on verso of half-title: Crozet, Dentu & Delaunay, Dufart, Durand Jeune, Merlin, and Silvestre.
Pagination: v. 1: xv, [1], 376 p., [21] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 411, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 356 p., [12] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 444 p., [16] leaves of plates.
All twelve plates in four forms: léau-forte, avant lettres, avant lettres on China paper, and published state on China paper; includes engravings for the first plate by both Simonet and Courbe (at v. 1, p. 10).
Engravings after Moreau by Simonet, De Villiers frères, Mariage, Courbe, and Hulk.
Description
4 v. : ill. ; 24 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Edwin B. Holden (bookplate); Francis Kettaneh (bookplate); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco, gold-tooled, with dentelles, by Petit.
Classification
Department