Fielding Henry Translator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 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. …

10. Paris, chez Giguet et Michaud, impr. Libraires rue des Bons-Enfans , An XII , 1804, 6 vols in-12°, 16,5 x 10 cm, uniformly bound in contemporary full marbled roan, smooth spines with red title label and green oval volume number, some damage at the extremeties and some abrasion of the boards but still a good set. Book in French, livre en français. The first volume contains an introduction of 48 pp. by the translator in which he writes at length on the merit of his translation of Fielding and critisizing those of other French translators. Querard in his '' La France Littéraire.'' proves him right in stating that Chéron's translation is by far the best.…

Three volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], xv, [i], 338, [2] advertisements; [iv], 388; [ii], 167, 184-334 (complete despite jump in pagination); with a frontispiece portrait in volume I, and 5 folding maps and plans (at pp. 28, 32, 35, 52 and 78); and one folding plate in volume III (at p. 224); a very clean, fresh copy in contemporary panelled calf, spines rather dry and joints cracked, but holding; a good set. First edition: there was a pirated abridgement in 1742, but this is the sole authorised printing. The original French edition of this work of contemporary history was published at Amsterdam in November 1739, and Fielding seems to have been commissioned immediately to make a translation. This was presumably because of the money involved, rather for a lack of anything else to do, because at the same time he was starting a new periodical, The Champion: in the winter of 1739-40, one of the coldest on record, Fielding was beset by creditors and was desperate to earn money. His involvement in this translation at least as supervisor, if he did not make the whole translation himself is well-attested, as a receipt in his own hand survives, acknowledging payment by Nourse of £45 'in part payment for the Translation of the History of Charles the twelfth by me': that was signed on 10 March 1740, but the finished text was not published for another seven months. Cross III p. 337. …