FIELDING (Henry). Tom Jones, or the story of a foundling. Paris: Firmin Didot frères printing house, 1833. - 4 volumes in-8, 220 x 138 : XV, 376 pp. 4 plates, printed cover ; (2 ff.), 411 pp. 2 plates, printed cover ; (2 ff.), 356 pp. 3 plates, printed cover ; (2 ff.), 444 pp. 3 plates, printed cover. Half dark green morocco, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover preserved (late 19th century binding). First edition of the complete French translation by Henri Huchet, comte de La Bédoyère (1782-1861) of this famous novel by Henry Fielding (1707-1754). It is illustrated with 12 plates engraved by Devilliers, Simonet and Mariage after Moreau le Jeune. Copy including 3 states of the engravings (definitive, before the letter and in colours), the state in colours being unbound and with larger margins than the work. It is also enriched with the titles engraved by Rouargue frères for volumes 1 and 2, as well as the 4 figures engraved after Alfred Johannot for the Furne edition of 1835, one of which includes two proofs (p. 177 volume 1), of the 9 engravings after Borel for the 1801 edition in a state before the letter on wove paper, of 2 unsigned pure etchings (p. 125 volume 1 and p. 110 volume 3), of 2 etchings of which one is unsigned (p. 224 volume 1) and one after Tony Johannot dated 1851 (p. 240 volume 2). At the end of the second volume, bound before the table, are the cartoons of pages 131-132 and 313-314 of the first volume. At the end of the last volume there is also the box of pages 355-356 of the second volume and a duplicate of pages 365-366 of the same volume. Spines slightly faded and rubbed in places. Some foxing. Tears and folds on the edge of some colour plates. Provenance: Jacques Vieillard, with ex-libris.