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Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vol. 1 hardcover, bound in dark green half-leather, is in Good condition, having tears to top of spine, much rubbing, edge wear to covers and spine; gilt-lettering on spine (with vol. 1.) has been worn off, but the indentation of the type can still be seen; volume has some shaking, seen at end paper and first few pages, some foxing to pages. All five illustrations by Cruikshank are there, but the last one (facing page 330) has a tear in it. Literature.
Seller: Counterpane Books, Frazier Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.23 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Disbound ( No boards present). Reading copy only. xxiii, 454pp with Portrait frontis. & 4pp illustrations by George Cruikshank. Some pages have old water stains.
Seller: Wheen O' Books, Selkirk, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes complete - Volume One - [5], viii-xxiii, [2], 2-454pp and Volume Two - [5], 2-448pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, very slightly chipped to head caps. Internally an occasional hint of foxing, especially to frontispiece, some light off setting from engravings, but generally quite bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir Timothy Eden to front pastedowns. With a portrait frontispiece after Hogarth, and eight engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 705; Sadleir 3736a Size: 12mo
Seller: Zetetic Books, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volume set. First edition illustrated by Cruikshank. Gilt stamping on spines, metallic top edge of text blocks. Title plate on first volume has fallen off. Half leather (spine and corners); spines detached in some parts and loose, binding still strong. Ex libris plates on both inside front covers.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. James Cochrane and Co, London, 1831.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 Volumes. Ashy brown cloth binding, some discolored spots from wear and from dust. Spines are slightly worn at the extremities and front and back covers are slightly loose. Edges of pages have a colorful marbled design. Pages are in very good condition with no foxing. Blue end pages. Pencil edits (2 numbers changed) on illustrations table of contents in vol II.
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Leather scuffed with loss to foot of spine of vol 2 and also loss to corner of front board. Corners bumped, boards rubbed. Some gutters cracked. Some light foxing here and there, else pp clean and bright. Size: 16mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$214.90 + shipping
Description: Good copies bound in contemporary leather-backed, marbled boards. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine, with raised bands, and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. All edges marbled. Spine bands, corners and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Front board of volume 1 almost detached with wear to the spine bands. Scattered foxing. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 2v (xxiv, 456 ; [8], 448p, [9] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 18cm. Notes; Both vols with a series title-page. Subjects; English fiction 18th century. Identity (Psychology) ; Fiction. Foundlings ; Fiction. Young men ; Fiction. Picaresque literature Social life and customs ; Fiction. London (England) Social life and customs ; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 454, 448. 12mo. Lovely two volume set bound in full tan polished calf. This is a complete set in itself, issued as part of 'The Novelist's Library', edited by Thomas Roscoe, and with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Titles from the set are usually encountered bound in cloth: our offering is most attractively bound in full polished calf, with a heavily-ornamented spine showing five raised bands and morocco spine labels. A frontispiece and four engravings in volume I; and a frontispiece and three engravings in volume II. All edges are marbled, as are the endpapers. The binding shows minimal wear, and the hinges are strong. Occasional foxing to text, more so from off-setting of the plates. Else in very good condition. Roscoe (1791-1871) was an English author and translator. He was educated by Dr. W. Shepherd and a private tutor, and began his career writing for local magazines and journals. During the period 1820 to 1850, he wrote a number of travel books, and several novels. He also translated into English many Italian, German and French works. 'The Novelist's Library' was issued between 1831 and 1833, and contained complete works (in English) by Cervantes, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Fielding, and Daniel De Foe.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$225.47 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. Part of the "Novelists Library" edited by Thomas Roscoe. Sm.8vo., cont. half calf, marble boards, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather spine labels, xxiv, 454; 448pp. Bookplates, some rubbing with hingestender but certainly a very good set.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: Good copies bound in contemporary leather-backed, marbled boards. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine, with raised bands, and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. All edges marbled. Spine bands, corners and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Front board of volume 1 almost detached with wear to the spine bands. Scattered foxing. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 2v (xxiv, 456 ; [8], 448p, [9] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 18cm. Notes; Both vols with a series title-page. Subjects; English fiction 18th century. Identity (Psychology) ; Fiction. Foundlings ; Fiction. Young men ; Fiction. Picaresque literature Social life and customs ; Fiction. London (England) Social life and customs ; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 456, 448 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Eight etchings and a portrait of another artist after Hogarth. List of illustrations in the second volume. Vols. 5 & 6 of Roscoe's Novelist's Library of a total of 19 volumes in the series. COHN 705. Fresh, bright set, bookplates, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt. Three quarter navy morocco, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Very good 2 vols.
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. James Cochrane and Co., 1831.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In good condition. Original moire cloth typically worn with light scuffing, soiling to surface. Rounded corners. Spine extremes are rounded. Spine labels lightly chipped, toned. Slightly darkened cloth on spines. Parisian bookseller s plate on front paste downs. Volume one gutter is broken. Text blocks are lightly toned, free of marking. Light offsetting from plates. Bindings are shaken overall. Delicate, but can be handled and read. Please see photos. First edition, this with engraved frontispieces and seven engraved plates. This is the first appearance of these Cruikshank illustrations commissioned by Roscoe for this series in 1831. Bindings are extremely scarce. COLL1831DJKZ-FORN-TUB0007 04/24 HKREVISION
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Cruikshank, George. First Cruikshank Edition. Vols V & VI. 8 plates by George Cruikshank. 448; 454pp. 2 vols. 12mo. With a cartoon of Santa Claus by the owner Claude Smith. New Yorker cartoonist laid in. Cohn 705 Beiger cloth. title labels, fine 8 plates by George Cruikshank. 448; 454pp. 2 vols. 12mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$370.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Finely bound in brown morocco over marbled boards. 5 raised bands with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Silk ribbons present. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of both volumes, otherwise no previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Contains a clipped ad for this publication adhered to verso of second to last page. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
CRUIKSHANK, George; Fielding, Henry; GEORGE CRUIKS. The History of Tom Jones. , 1831.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: CRUIKSHANK, George. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. By Henry Fielding Esq. Two volumes. xxiv, 456; [6], 448 pp. With eight full-page etchings by George Cruikshank plus frontispiece portrait of Fielding in volume one by another artist. 8vo., 170 x 115 mm, bound in 19th century three-quarter blue morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, spine compartments gilt, t.e.g. London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. First appearance of Cruikshank illustrations for The History of Tom Jones. Volumes V & VI from the Novelist's Library, edited by Thomas Roscoe, Esq. A handsome two volume set of Fielding's masterpiece, first printed in 1749, illustrated by George Cruikshank. 'The first two volumes of Roscoe's series "Robinson Crusoe" where not illustrated by Cruikshank, whose services were obtained in the endeavor to make the series more successful.' A fine copy with the bookplate of John Francis Neylan on the front paste-down. Cohn, 705.
Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$461.98 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. First edition thus [first edition 1749]. Finely bound in three-quarter tan calf and tan cloth by Bayntun, with five raised bands to the spine, contrasting black and green title labels to the spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, pale beige marbled endpapers. Near fine, with some light soiling to the boards, otherwise fresh bindings, light toning and faint spotting to the illustrated plates, Vol. I with a faded ownership inscription to the title page, otherwise bright and clean pages. A fresh set in a fine binding. First published in 1749, Tom Jones is widely considered both one of the best comic novels in English history and Fielding's masterpiece. Specifically, it tells the story of Tom Jones, an orphan born out of wedlock who is subsequently raised by the respectable Squire Allworthy. Notably, Tom's sexual promiscuity and strident behavior caused scandal among the novel's readers, but, nonetheless, Tom Jones quickly became an acclaimed novel, largely due to the effectiveness with which Fielding captured mid-18th century English society.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.