The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, by Henry Fielding, 1952, Heritage Press, order Vintage Boxed Novel,

Vintage Boxed Novel, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, by Henry Fielding, 1952, Heritage Press
With illustrations by T. M. Cleland and an Introduction by Louis Kronenberger

The Heritage Club, Includes newsletter sandglass, Nice box with some aging on box and spine, Front cover has marbleized design in browns and orange, Inside is clean and tight. Looks never read. See pictures for more evidence of condition.

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel.[1] It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world.[2]

The novel is highly organised despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside Oedipus Tyrannus and The Alchemist.[3] It became a best seller with four editions published in its first year alone.[4] It is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English novel.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling

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About The Heritage Press

An imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., Heritage Press was founded in 1935. The Press printed more affordable classic volumes that were previously published by Macy's Limited Editions Club and covered a broad range of topics primarily within the Western canon. In addition to Macy, directors of the Heritage Press included Cedric Crowell, General Manager of the Doubleday Bookshops; Frank L. Magel, head of Putnam Bookstores in New York; and A. Koch, head of Brentano Stores in New York.

Though many of Macy's other imprints, including The Heritage Club, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, and The Junior Heritage Club, were sold by subscription only, Heritage Press editions were sold through bookstores. Macy combined his publishing enterprises in 1944, though each imprint maintained its specific target audience. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970.

First Edition Identification

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