The history of Tom Jones, a foundling ... / by Henry Fielding ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

Contributor:

Smith, John, active 1719-1758, bookseller.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Shelburne Library (stamp) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes (xvi, 328; x, 414; viii, 364 pages); 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

33s- n.ir ghf. 'F'o (3) 1750 (R)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed for John Smith at the Philosophers Heads on the Blind Quay, MDCCL [1750]

Notes:

Signatures: v.1. A-P¹²; v.2: A-R¹² S⁸ ; v.3: A-P¹² Q⁶.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy of set is incomplete: Penn Libraries has vol 3 only; copy is imperfect with title page from vol 3 of the 1749 Dublin edition bound instead (identical except for imprint date). Title page transcription based on electronic version available via ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online).

Singer-Mendenhall copy has upper right corner of title page torn off.

Singer-Mendenhall copy acquired in 2016 from Arthur Freeman Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has circular stamp "Shelburne Library" on verso of title page.

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound with: Saint Pierre, B. Paul and Mary : an Indian story. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. P. Byrne, Grueber, and M'Alister, J. Jones, J. Moore, and William Jones. MDCCLXXXIX [1789]

Cited in:

English short title catalogue T133824

OCLC:

810501541