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Henry FIELDING

Histoire de Tom Jones, ou l'enfant trouvé

Chez Jean Nourse, à Londres 1750, In-12 (10x16,2cm), (4) xj, 336pp. ; (4) 344pp. et (4) 282pp. ; (4) 341pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First french edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 pretty figures of Gravelot, engraved by Aveline, Chedel, Fessard and Pasquier.
"Charming illustration of the best time of Gravelot". Cohen. Translation and adaptation by De La Place.
Full vintage marbled calfskin. Smooth back decorated with irons with the wheat sheaf in boxes. Title piece in red morocco, and tomaison in morocco morocco. small gaps in the head. Upper joint of volume I and III split. despite the few defects mentioned, beautiful copy, very fresh, very decorative appearance of the back.
The History of Tom Jones at Foundling is undoubtedly one of the great masterpieces of English literature. He devotes the English picaresque genre to a brilliant mixture of different genres, that of the novel of manners, that of the sentimental novel and that of a typically English satirical prose found in Swift. Fielding had previously given Joseph Andrews, a sort of satire of the fashionable romance novel, Richardson's Pamela, and Jonathan Wild's Story, and it was already two master shots, he signed with Tom Jones a multiple, profound work, though always in the same vein as Joseph Andrews; his influence will be great in France, and unalterable in England, as far as Thomas Hardy and George Elliot. The echoes of this English style will find great echoes in Dickens.

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