Accession number
PML 127624-25
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Published
A Londre [i.e. Paris] : Chez Jean Nourse, 1750.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Notes
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 [numbering pasted in for 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).
4 v. bound in 2.
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 [numbering pasted in for 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).
4 v. bound in 2.
Description
4 v. : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Provenance
Unidentified armorial drawing (half-title, v. 1).
Binding
Three-quarter red morocco, gold-tooled, by Gustaf Hedberg.
Classification
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