Author: Henry Fielding
Title: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Description: London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1930. Cloth. The first Gerald Spencer Pryse edition of Henry Fielding's seminal work, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first Gerald Spencer Pryse edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board, and with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen further plates. Collated, complete.Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English writer known for his satirical works, and as a founder of the traditional English novel. He is particularly remembered for this comic novel, considered to be his greatest book and a highly influential novel. Often known simply as Tom Jones, this work is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It became a best seller with four editions published in its first year alone. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is generally smart, with a little bumping to the extremities. Front board is slightly bowed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot. Dust wrapper is mostly bright and smart, with chipping to the head and tail of the spine and faint marks to the rear of the wrap. Very Good . Ill.: G. Spencer Pryse. Very Good/Very Good Indeed.

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