ABC122928 Squire Western and his Lady Cousins, from \'Tom Jones, the History of a Foundling\', engraved by the artist, illustration from \'The Works of Henry Fielding\', pub. by Henry G. Bohn, 1853 (engraving) by Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); Private Collection; (add.info.: 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 both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel); English, out of copyright.