*1783* Henry Fielding (tom Jones) Works V.rare 332pp Nr

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PRESENTS HANDSOMELY. FULL POLISHED TREE CALF LEATHER W/GOAT MOROCCO RED AND BLACK GILT STAMPED LABELS AND GILT STAMPED DECORATIONS AND DATE (SEE BELOW) TO SPINE. w/textblock (nearly 350pp) in VERY FINE CONDITION.

London. The Works of Henry Fielding Esq. author of TOM JONES and one of English literature's most seminal figures. This BOOK is VERY RARE TO MARKET. THICK: 332pp. (LEAVES FINE). LAID PAPER. Almost a half dozen complete pieces, some among his most respected. all in remarkable condition.

Fascinating literary provenance. FROM LIBRARY OF and with the 19th century bookplate of famed "J.A. BRIGG ARCHITECT" (1858 1916). AUTHOR, AND "THE FATHER OF THE BUNGALOW!" See details below.

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Henry Fielding is regarded as one of the greatest artists among English novelists of the eighteenth century and was instrumental in the emergence of the novel as a respected literary form. The English novel of today was largely created by Henry Fielding. His fiction, plays, essays, and legal pamphlets show he was a humane and witty man, with a passion for reform and justice. Fielding's novels, in which the author himself tells the story and controls the plot structure, are considered the first accurate portrayal of contemporary manners.

PUBLISHED: 1783 (MDCCLXXXIII). Vol. II; London, Printed for W. Strahan ; J. Rivington and Sons, S. Crowder ; T. Longman ; J. Robson ; C. Dilly ; G. Kearsley ; G. Robinson ; T. Cadell ; T. Lowndes ; R. Baldwin ; J. Nichols ; W. Cater ; G. Nicholl ; S. Baldon ; J. Murray ; W. Flexney ; T. Evans ; W. Otridge ; J. Sewell ; W. Lane ; J. Bowen, and W. Fox.

Henry Fielding influenced the main tradition of the English novel through the eighteenth century (e.g., Smollett) and the nineteenth century (e.g., Dickens and Thackeray). With the tightly structured Tom Jones, in which every detail has a purpose, Fielding contributed a sense of structure to the development of the English novel; some critics have called it one of the best plotted novels in English, despite a lengthy interpolated story, "The Man on the Hill." With the character Tom Jones, he introduced a new kind of fictional heroa good hearted, well intentioned, generous young man with ordinary human weakness, one who yields to temptation with women and to make errors in judgement. With his theories of the novel, expressed primarily in Joseph Andrews, Fielding attempted to give dignity and status to the new genre of the novel by relating it to the classical epic. As George Eliot wrote in Middlemarch, when reading a Fielding novel the author himself seems to draw his armchair into the room "and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English".

PROVENANCE: FROM THE LIBRARY OF Robert Alexander Briggs (1858 1916) with his bookplate to front pastedown. He attended Royal Academy Schools and Architectural Association classes. He won the Soane Medallion in 1883 and spent some time travelling on the Continent during which time he met and befriended Andrew Noble Prentice. The following year he commenced independent practice. Briggs was also the author of a number of publications on domestic architecture, the first of which earned him the nickname by his contemporaries: 'Bungalow Briggs': 'Bungalows and Country Residences', 1891 'Homes for the Country' ', 1904 'Country Cottages and Homes', 1910. THE FATHER OF THE MODERN BUNGALOW AND AUTHOR!

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