The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding

$12,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. First edition. First edition of one of the great novels of the eighteenth century, which “established the tradition of the comic novel in English” ODNB . Six volumes in three, twelvemo. lxii, 2, errata , 214; ii , 324; ii , 370; ii , 312; ii , 294; ii , 304 pp. Complete, but for final blanks. Marginal chip to leaf C12 in volume six, not

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