Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones A Foundling Vol. 1. Basil Blackwell, 1926.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume One Only. Book has light wear to head and tail of spine as well as fore edge corners. a tiny 4mm closed tear at head of spine. Spine is very slightly cocked. Upper fore edge corners are slightly bumped. A little foxing to the edges of the text block as well as the end papers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Provenance stamp from Parker & Son, Ltd in Oxford. 274 pp. Part of the 10 volume Sheakespeare Head edition of Fielding's novels. The Tom Jones comprises 4 of the 10 volumes. Limited edition of 1,030 copies of the set were produced. The text of this is based on the so-called third edition of 1749.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Basil Blackwell, 1926.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 1030 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press in the press's 10 volume edition of Fielding's novels. Four volumes, red buckram, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Slightly cocked, prelims and edges a bit foxed. A nice edition, with 28 pages of notes in Volume IV. There is a bookplate in Volume II. Size: 8vo
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
FIELDING, Henry.. Amelia.. Basil Blackwell. Oxford Shakespeare Head Press 3 volumes, 1926.
Price: US$58.51 + shipping
Description: pp. xi, (i), 232; vii, (i), 226, (ii); vii, (i), 252. All in the original cloth, uncut, a very good set. *A complete title from the Shakespeare Head edition of Fielding's novels.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Fielding, Henry. THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES. A Foundling. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1926.
Price: US$80.54 + shipping
Description: In four volumes, totalling approximately 1200 pages, title page vignette each volume, bibliographical note and notes on the text Volume IV; cr. 8vo; red/brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle marked, edges slightly rubbed, a couple of the fore-corners lightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, the free endpapers slightly offset, scattered foxing; Basil Blackwell, publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1926. Edition limited to 1030 copies (1,000 for sale). The Shakespeare Head Edition of Fielding's Novels.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$269.50 + shipping
Description: Octavos, 10 volumes;; VG+; paneled maroon leather spine, gilt lettering, 3/4 bound, cloth boards; cloth with slight marks or spotting, corners and edges minor rubbing; minor shelfwear; text block uncut; text clear; please contact for shipping costs; shelved above hardcover fiction. 1255807. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Complete 10-Volume Set in publisher's gilt-stamped heavy brick-red buckram, 1 of 1030 sets printed, t.e.g., no markings, bindings tight pages bright & unfoxed, all volumes Very Good to Fine with an occasional scuff or slight mark to the boards, most pages still uncut, an excellent clean tight set; Novels are: Tom Jones in 4 volumes, Amelia in 3, Joseph Andrews in 2, and Jonathan Wild in 1; 10 8vos. Due to its weight, set will incur an additinal shipping charge
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.13 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Cloth, gilt Title to spine, top edge gilt, others and frontpapers slightly stained. A very fine set. Limited Edition of 1030 Sets. Vol. 1. The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great; Vol. 2-3. The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams; Vol. 4-7. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling; Vol. 8-10. Amelia.
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: USED Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926., 1926. Limited Edition to 1030 copies Publisher's light brown cloth with gilt titles to spines top edges gilt. A Very Good set.Ownder's stamp in front
Seller: Asano Bookshop, Nagoya, AICHI, Japan
Henry Fielding. The Shakespeare Head Edition of Fielding's Novels. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1926.
Price: US$481.06 + shipping
Description: A pleasing collection of works by the renowned eighteenth century English novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding; bound in a uniform red cloth binding with gilt title to the spines and gilded top page edges. Henry Fielding was a renowned novelist and playwright, who, with Samuel Richardson, is considered a founder of the English novel. He is best remembered for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and for his comic novel 'Tom Jones'; a work that is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as a very influential English novel. This limited edition set is complete in ten volumes. This set contains the following works: 'The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great' 'The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling', complete in four volumes. 'Amelia', complete in three volumes. 'Joseph Andrews', complete in two volumes. Each volume is one of one thousand and thirty copies printed by the Shakespeare Head Press (and published by Basil Blackwell), of which one thousand were for sale. The Shakespeare Head Press was a small printing and publishing press established in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1904 by the renowned English editor Arthur Henry Bullen. The press was a prolific publisher of fine editions and were renowned for their excellent typography and letterpress production on very high quality paper. After Bullen's death the press was continued by a partnership including Basil Blackwell, and continues today as an imprint of Wiley-Blackwell. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, with gilt title to spines. Externally excellent, with minor shelfwear to extremities and head and tail of spines. Marking to fore edge of front board 'Jonathan Wild'. Slight offsetting to endpapers, with scattered spots to endpapers of 'Tom Jones' volume II, 'Amelia' volume I, and 'Andrews' volume II. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Light scattered spots to first and last few pages 'Tom Jones', volume II. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Large Paper Edition, limited to 520 sets. Ten large octavo volumes (9 x 6 in; 230 x 150 mm). Publishers three-quarter red morocco over pale red cloth boards. Gilt decorated compartments. Frontispieces. A very Fine set. "The Elizabethan scholar A. H. Bullen established the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-up-Avon in 1904. His original aim was to produce a good edition of Shakespeare's works, and his ten volume Stratford Town Shakespeare was completed by 1907. After Bullen died in 1927, the press was acquired by a partnership including Basil Blackwell, the Oxford bookseller. Bernard Newdigate was appointed as typographer and under his direction the press worked within the Morris tradition" (Rogerson). The present contains: Joseph Andrews (2 vols); Jonathan Wild; Tom Jones; (4 vols) and Amelia (3 vols). Rogerson 86. Ranson 13.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.