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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, author.

Contributor:

Didot, François-Ambroise, 1730-1804, printer.

Pissot, Noël-Jacques, 1724?-1804, bookseller.

Barrois, Charles-Jacques, 1777- bookseller.

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

Standardized Title:

History of Tom Jones

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--Early works to 1800.

English fiction.

Genre:

Printed waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek (Donaueschingen, Germany) (stamp) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes ; 22 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Tom Jones

Fingerprint:

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46a. ndof edn. heat (3) 1780 (R) v.2

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Place of Publication:

Paris : Printed by Fr. Amb. Didot the eldest : And sold by J.N. Pissot, and Barrois junior, Quai des Augustins, booksellers, MDCCLXXX [1780]

Notes:

Booksellers' names are bracketed together in imprint.

Signatures: volume 1: pi² a⁸ A-Y⁸ Z⁶ ; volume 2: pi² a² [b]1 A-Z⁸ 2A⁶ ; volume 3: pi² a1 b² A-V⁸ X⁴(-X4) ; volume 4: pi² a² [b]1 A-2A⁸.

Pagination: volume 1: [4], xvj, 363, [1] pages ; volume 2: [4], vj, 379, [1] pages ; volume 3: [4], vj, 326 pages ; volume 4: [4], vj, 384 pages.

Errata on last preliminary page of volumes 1, 3, and 4.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Antiquates Fine & Rare Books.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: each volume has oval blue ink stamp ("F.F. BIBLIOTHEK DONAUESCHINGEN") of Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek (Donaueschingen, Germany) on verso of title leaf.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: each volume bound in original blue paper wrapper with manuscript spine title label; 7 copies of contemporary printed leaf A1 (12mo with horizontal chain lines) from an unrecorded edition in French of "Julie, ou, Le triomphe de la constance" titled "Julie, ou, La constance couronnée" used as binder's waste (inside front and back wrappers of volumes 1-3 and inside front wrapper of volume 4); portion of a contemporary printed leaf from a French publication used as binder's waste (inside back wrapper of volume 4); edges untrimmed.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: volume 2 has laid in folded paper sheet with manuscript calculations in pencil in a German hand; volume 4 has laid in portion of a printed leaf from an unidentified publication (newspaper?).

Singer-Mendenhall copy: volume 1: back wrapper detached; volume 4: front wrapper detached.

Cited in:

ESTC T89903

OCLC:

1805054