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TOM JONES ON THE PARIS STAGE

[CHOUDARD]-DESFORGES, [Pierre Jean Baptiste]. Tom Jones a Londres, comédie en cinq actes, en vers, tirée du roman de Fielding, répresentée, pour la première fois, par les comédiens Italiens ordinaires du Roi, le Mardi 22 Octobre 1782. Paris: F. J. Baudouin, 1782.

[with:] --- Tom Jones et Fellamar, suite de Tom Jones a Londres; comédie en cinq actes et en vers. Réprésentée, pour la première fois, par les comédiens Italiens ordinaires du Roi, le Mardi 17 Avril 1787. Paris: Prault, 1788. 2 vols., 8vo (212 × 130 mm.), pp. [iv], 121, [3]; [iv], 102, [2] (adverts), including half-title. First volume has occasional spotting and small ownership inscription in an early hand to title; light damp-stain to first few pages of second volume. Later marbled wrappers. Very good copies.

First editions. A dramatic adaptation of Fielding’s Tom Jones for the French stage by Choudard-Desforges, with its sequel. The plays were written for performance by the Comédie-Italienne, of which the playwright Desforges had been a member.

Cioranescu 23412; 23418.

£500.00 (equal to approx. US$791.74* or €618.35* for 22 May 2012)

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