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Tom Jones, ou, L'enfant trouvé / imité de Fielding par M. de La Place. Tome premier [-quatrieme] ; par ordre de Mgr Comte d'Artois.

Accession number
PML 127182-85
Creator
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Published
A Paris Chez Didot l'aîné, 1784.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Notes
La Place's abridged version of: History of Tom Jones.
Pagination: [4], 336; 293, [1]; 297, [1]; 369, [1] p.
Signatures: v. 1: pi², 1⁴, 2-28⁶, 29²; v. 2: pi⁴, 2-24⁶, 25⁶ [final leaf blank]; v. 3: pi⁶, 2-25⁶ [final leaf blank]; v. 4: pi⁶, 2-31⁶ [final leaf blank].
The Comte d'Artois was prince Charles-Philippe, who became Charles X, King of France.
Description
4 v. ; 13 cm
Provenance
Magne family (bookplate with open right hand on a banded bar, monogram "J M").
Binding
Olive morocco, gold-tooled, with dentelles, possibly by Derome.
Classification
Department