The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
FIELDING, Henry
With a Memoir of the Author by Thomas Roscoe and Illustrations by George Cruikshank. [The Novelist's Library].
IN THE ORIGINAL SERIES MOIRE BOARDS
Published: James Cochrane, 1831
Stock code: 27654
Price: £360.00
2 vols., sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispieces and 7 engraved plates; original series binding of ivory moiré boards, backstrips each with two labels (chipped) blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, very neatly rebacked to style, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Complete with printed series titles [The Novelist's Library vols. 5 and 6] and single-leaf series catalogue at end of first volume and beginning of second volume. With the binder's ticket of Smith of Ivy Lane on rear paste-down of first volume. THIS IS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, COMMISSIONED BY ROSCOE FOR THIS SERIES IN 1831. See Evans, pp.77-79. COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL (AND FRAGILE) SERIES BINDING ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.