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FIELDING, Henry.

The History of Tom Jones,

The History of Tom Jones,

a foundling.

Stock Code 113993

London; Edinburgh, J. Murray; J. Sibbald, 1792

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A smart set in Bayntun's binding of the seminal English novel Tom Jones, with humorous hand-coloured plates. A reissue of the sheets of Sibbald's 1791 Edinburgh edition, illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson.

3 vols, 8vo (20.5 x 12.5 cm); 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, faint offsetting otherwise internally clean and tight; 20th-century full calf by Bayntun, boards gilt tooled, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, slight rubbing to spine otherwise very good; xix, [1], 280; xi, [1], 350; vii, [1], 316pp.

ESTC N2590.

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