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Price: US$451.53 + shipping
Description: 4 vols. complete: 164+272+231+276 pp., small octavo, leather, with red and green spine labels, with engraved plates. 800 g
Seller: Antiquariat Im Seefeld / Ernst Jetzer, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG, 4 volumes, [1792], 15 plates, first Cooke edition, in contemporary tree calf, gilt edge tooling, corners bumped & worn. Spines, worn, edges bumped. Vol 1, additional engraved title with woodcut, plus the series edition & dedication both engraved, (iv), [1], 6-14, [1], (xvi-xx), [1], 22-264 pp, 7 pls. Vol 2, additional eng. title, [3], 4-272, 4 pls. V3, additional eng title, [3], 4-231, 2 pl. V4, eng tp, [3], 4-276 pp, 2 pl. All vols blue marbled endpapers, vols 1&2 with bookplate to fpds (Rev John Roberts), upper joints cracked, spine title labels lacking in V2&4, vertical spine crack to V2. Dated per ESTC 1792, plates dated 1792, the additional eng pl 1793. (142*85 mm). (ESTC T1941). estc T1941
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In 4 volumes complete. Contemporary full mottled tree calf. Gilt panels to spines with red & black leather title & volume labels. Some creasing to spines & wear to spine ends. Boards clean. Two extra-illustrated engraved plates for 'Cooke's Edition' at front of first volume. Frontis engraving to 3 of the 4 volumes. Additional full-page engravings. Internally clean. 16mo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. Cooke's Edition. C Cooke, London, 1792.
Price: US$704.48 + shipping
Description: A very smart early edition of Henry Fielding's famous picaresque novel 'Tom Jones'. A very smartly bound set, in a contemporary tree calf binding.From the Cooke's edition of select British novels with the two engraved leaves regarding the Cooke's edition which are dated 1792. With four further engraved plates to volume I, three engraved plates to volume II, I plate to volume III and I plate to volume IV.Complete in four volumes.This novel, often known as 'Tom Jones' is a comic novel, regarded as both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It is one of the earliest works to be regarded as a novel and is often cited as one of the works that influenced the rise of the novel as a genre.Former owner's stamp to the title pages, 'Stickland'. In uniform full tree calf bindings. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the extremities. Small split to the head of front joint to volume III. Former owner's stamp to the title pages, 'Stickland'. Internally, Pages 77-80, 101-104 to volume I are detached but present. Plate to volume III is detached but present. Otherwise, all volumes are generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the occasional light spots to pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$5123.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 18mo. 63 volumes, labelled 1-63 on spine. Contemporary or near contemporary full tree calf, with contrasting labels and Grecian motifs to spine, marbled endpapers, edges speckled, small booksellers label to flyleaf R. R. Balfour. Early neat signature John Taylor to title pages. The set in very good condition. Cooke was a publishing revolutionary. He set out to produce well-illustrated novels that could fit in the pocket, a precursor of Penguin books. Here are found the first 63 volumes of his new publishing endeavour, bound up in sequence. Individually, each volume usually has an engraved title page and from one to four engraved plates, most with their original tissue guards. In more detail, this set runs as follows: 1. Fielding: History of Tom Jones. Engraved series title page dated 1792, Engraved volume title page for Tom Jones, dated 1793, engraved dedication page dated 1793, printed title page for Tom Jones volume 1. Address by the publisher to the public, life of Henry Fielding, followed by author s dedication and text. Four plates to text, dated 1792. 2-4: Tom Jones. 5 Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield. Two volumes in one. 6-7 Fielding, H. Joseph Andrews. 8-9: Smollett, T. Roderick Random. 10-12 Sterne, L. Tristram Shandy. 13-15 Defoe, D. Robinson Crusoe (engraved title page dated 1793). 16 Le Sage The Devil Upon Two Sticks. 17. Smollett, T. Launcelot Greaves. Two vols in One. 18-20 Fielding, H. Amelia. 21-24 Smollet, T The Adventures of Gil Blas. 25-26 Smollet, T. Humphrey Clinker. 27 Sterne, L. Sentimental Journey; Voltaire, M de. Zadig or the book of Fate. 28-29 Morrell, C. The Tales of the Genii. 30-33 Smollet, T. Peregrine Pickle. 34-35 Mothe-Fenelon The Adventures of Telemachus. 36-37 Smollet, T. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. 38-39 Marmontel. Moral Tales. 40. Guelett, M Chinese Tales, or the Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, translated by the Reverend Stackhouse. 41. Swift, Dean. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Samuel Gulliver. 42. Kelly, H. Memoirs of a Magdalen or the History of Louisa Mildmay. 43. Smollet, T. History and Adventures of an Atom. 44. The Correspondence of Theodosius and Constantia. 45 Madame de Gafigny Memoirs of a Peruvian Princess. 46. Conventry, F. The History of Pompey the Little: or the life and adventures of a lap-dog. 47-51 Cervantes, M. Don Quixote to which is affixed some account of the author s life by Dr Smollet (plates dated 1797). 52-54 Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea. 55. Dodd Rev. The Sisters or the History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson. Two volumes in One. 56. Swift, Dean. Tale of a Tub. 57 Fielding, H. A Journey from this world to the next. 58-59 Lennox, Mrs. The Female Quixote. 60 Lennox, Mrs Henrietta. Two volumes in one (plates dated 1798). 61 Fielding, H. The History of Jonathan Wild. 62. Marmontel. M. Belisarius. A Tale. [bound with] Dr Hawkesworth Almoran and Hamet 63. Voltaire, M. Candid. [Bound with] Walpole, H. Castle of Otranto. In between the two books in the final volume is bound a single leaf publisher s advertisement, explaining that they are 18mo, printed on a purposely commissioned wove paper, printed in a new type, with embellishments, with the utmost neatness. A remarkable set. So far as we can tell, the volumes appear to be mainly or all the first Cooke issues, have frequently series engraved title pages where appropriate, and individually some of them are uncommon the Lennox Henrietta (ESTC N32859) shows no examples in the UK for example. Would be useful for bibliographic analysis, or as an attractive cornerstone of an eighteenth century literature collection.
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom