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Tom Jones, ou histoire d'un enfant trouvé

Illustrated by: Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, 1741–1814)
Engraved by: Devilliers frères (French, 1784–about 1818/after 1844)
Engraved by: Louis François Mariage (French, active 1785–1811)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
Author: Henry Fielding (English, 1707–1754)
Printer and Publisher: Firmin Didot (French, 1764–1836)
1833
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 12 etching and engravings [plus folder of 10 watercolors and 24 etching and engravings, half of which are hand-colored]
Dimensions Overall (each vol., depth variable): 22 x 14 x 4.2 cm (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.2021a-d
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1833

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 395-96; Ray, French Illustrated Book, 59; Bocher, Moreau, 533-44
Description(Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1833) Octavo, four vols.; (v. 1) xv, 376 pp., plus 4 plates; (v. 2) [2 ff.] 411 pp., plus 2 pls.; (v. 3) [2 ff.] 356 pp., plus 3 pls.; (v. 4) [2 ff.] 444 pp., plus 3 pls.; contemporary publisher's letterpress-printed yellow paper wraps [plus additional folder with 9 watercolors of similar subjects, and two sets of the 12 Moreau Tom Jones illustrations, the first in proof state before captions, the second in published state and hand-colored].

Literary illustrations.
ProvenanceWilliam A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.