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HardBack. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First edition. Presumed 1st Edition Thus, Routledge, no date, circa 1880. Works of Fielding Complete in One Volume. Very Thick Royal 4to. Each work individually paginated, circa 900pp. Tissueguarded frontispiece and eight further full page plate steel engraved illustrations. Cracked to upper hinge splitting halfway spine visible, with resultant detached but present front free endpaper, lower hinge cracked webbing visible but holding. Otherwise textblock very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, small discreet feint ink stamp 11364 to foot of titlepage, light sporadic foxing limited to frontis., all further illustrations collated present and in great condition, gentle age toning as often. Beautifully bound in bright gilt lettered and illustrated full pictorial brown cloth, featuring elaborate floral scrolled illustration embossed in black to upper, and blind embossed to lower, gently chipped to spine and rubbed to lower edge with some surface loss to lower edge of lower corner, tippex small circle to foot of spine, otherwise great self presence with gilt and black embossed illustration. Fielding was a novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the comic novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found with his halfbrother John what some have called Londons first police force, the Bow Street Runners.

New Edition. 12 volumes; octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue paper-covered boards, orange printed spine labels, deckled edges; engraved portrait frontispiece in Vol. I. Boards a bit scuffed, a few volumes with shallow losses at spine ends, rear cover of Vol. XIII and upper cover of Vol. XII separated but present, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpapers torn or trimmed away in all but two volumes; still, quite a fresh and sturdy set of an early American edition of Johnson's complete works, uncommon thus. Spine labels allude to a larger "Classics" series, of which these are Volumes XXXIII-XLIV. FLEEMAN 87.3W/10; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 17840. Not noted in Courtney & Smith.