Author: FIELDING Henry - L.C. CHÉRON ( Translator ) :
Title: Tom Jones, ou Histoire d'un Enfant trouvé ; Traduite de Henri Fielding par L.C. Chéron.
Description: .: 10. Paris, chez Giguet et Michaud, impr. Libraires rue des Bons-Enfans , An XII , 1804, 6 vols in-12°, 16,5 x 10 cm, uniformly bound in contemporary full marbled roan, smooth spines with red title label and green oval volume number, some damage at the extremeties and some abrasion of the boards but still a good set. Book in French, livre en français. The first volume contains an introduction of 48 pp. by the translator in which he writes at length on the merit of his translation of Fielding and critisizing those of other French translators. Querard in his '' La France Littéraire...'' proves him right in stating that Chéron's translation is by far the best.. .

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