Histoire de Tom Jones, ou, L'enfant trouvé (v.3)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Histoire de Tom Jones, ou, L'enfant trouvé (v.3)
Other titles: History of Tom Jones; Enfant trouvé
Classmark: Anglo-French 3 1750/FIE
Creator(s): Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Additional creator(s): La Place, Pierre Antoine de (1707-1793) (Other); Gravelot, Hubert François (1699-1773) (Other); Aveline, François Antoine (1727-1780) (Other)
Related people: La Place, Pierre Antoine de; Gravelot, Hubert François; Aveline, François Antoine
Publisher: Chez Jean Nourse
Publication city: A Londres [i.e. Paris]
Date(s): 1750
Language: French
Size and medium: 4 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/246528
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015635299705181
Description
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.
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).
Weller, E. Falschen und fingierten Druckorte v. 2, p. 126.
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