THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING

for A. Millar, 1749

6750,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Stati Uniti d'America)

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Anno di pubblicazione

1749

Luogo di stampa

London

Autore

Fielding

Editori

for A. Millar

Edizione

VERY HANDSOME FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF A CORNERSTONE

Lingue

Inglese

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

6 volumes. First edition, the first issue with errata and uncorrected text. From the noted collection of Beverly Chew with his red morocco, gilt lettered ex libris on the front endpapers. Small 8vo, in very handsome polished antique mottled calf, the boards framed in gilt, the spines with gilt stippled raised bands between gilt framed and tooled compartments featuring large central gilt tooling, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels gilt tooled and lettered, board edges gilt tooled, page edges speckled. Now housed in a fine slipcase. lxii, errata, 214; [2], 324; [2], 370;[2], 312; [2], 294; [2], 304 pp. A very desirable and handsome set, the textblocks well preserved with just a bit of expected mellowing and occasional light sings of fox, clean then is usually found, the bindings very handsome, three volumes very expertly restored at the backs preserving the original spine panels, two of the remaining three with minor rubbing at the joints and tips, the third with a bit more.