This auction is for Tom Jones by Henry Fielding . A hard copy Folio edition

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. The novel is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. First published on 28 February 1749 in London, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel,[1] and 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.

S. T. Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned.

it became a best seller, with four editions being published in its first year alone.[4] Tom Jones is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book, and as a very influential English novel.[5]