1764 Histoire de Tom Jones, Henry Fielding, Early French Translation ( La Place)

Published by Rollin, 1764

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Histoire de Tom Jones ou Le Enfant Trouvé; Traduction de l'Anglois de Mr. Fielding, Par Mr. De la Place; Enrichie d'Estampes dessinées par Mr. Gravelot. à Londres, & se trouve à Paris, Chez Rollin, 1764, Complete set in four volumes: I: 240 p; II: 245 p; III: 203 p; IV: 228 p. 15 plates through all four volumes (Complete); uniform speckled leather binding measuring 6.5 x 4 , 12mo. In fair condition. Boards are normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Some darkening from shelf wear and use. Gilt work rubbed, but remains intact. Worming found in varying degrees through all volumes: front board of Vol. IV; rear boards of Vols. I & II. Fore-edges throughout text-blocks exhibit some small instances of worming as well, but no loss of text. Volume label on Vol. II is chipped: "T" in tome & one Roman numeral one lacking from title. Gilt lettering and deco on all volumes normally soiled & dulled, but overall attractive. Heads and tails of spines lacking (including all headbands but Vol. III). Normal to light toning present through text-blocks. Minor offsetting from plates. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. Pierre-Antoine de La Place (1707 11793) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright, the first translator of Shakespeare into French. His first literary attempts having been barely noticed, he imagined to send the news of his death in Paris where it was inserted in the Feuilles of abbot Desfontaines. If the scheme, once discovered, triggered laugh at the author's expense, the succès de scandale also drew him out of his darkness. The English literature being then fashionable, La Place was quick to exploit the genre from which he drew most of his income. In 1750, he became the first translator of Tom Jones, Henry Fielding's masterpiece, and the works of his sister, Sarah Fielding. RAREF1764ELMH - 10/21 FORN-SHELF-0467-BB-2410-HKREV214.…

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Title
1764 Histoire de Tom Jones, Henry Fielding, Early French Translation ( La Place)
Author
Henry Fielding; Pierre-Atoine de La Place (Translator)
Publisher
Rollin
Publication year
1764
Condition
Fair
Binding
Hardcover
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