ABC122925 Squire Western Seizing Jones at Upton, from \'Tom Jones, the History of a Foundling\', illustration from \'The Works of Henry Fielding\', pub. by Henry G. Bohn, 1853 (engraving) by Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); Private Collection; (add.info.: engraved by the artist. 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 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.