The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. V[-VI].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.

Contributor:

Becket, Thomas, publisher.

De Hondt, P. A. (Peter Abraham), publisher.

Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Authorship--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Fiction.

Infants--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Infants.

Fetus--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Fetus.

English fiction--18th century.

English fiction.

Genre:

Stream of consciousness fiction.

Experimental fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Singer, Jacob (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Singer, Leah (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Singer, Godfrey F. (honoree) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copies)

Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (inscription) (Day Sterne Collection 32)

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copies)

Jones, William, 1751- (former owner) (inscription) (Day Sterne Collection 11)

Stark, J. (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection 16)

British and Foreign Circulating Library (Norwich, England) (label) (Day Sterne Collection 32)

Hesilrige, Thomas (bookplate) (Day Sterne Collection 36)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

p.ur y.La hesa bopu (3) 1762 (R) v.5

thn! ngp, eat, *Vor (3) 1762 (R) v.6

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt ..., MDCCLXII [1762]

Notes:

Anonymous. By Laurence Sterne (dedication to volume 5 signed: Laur. Sterne). With the author's signature on page [1] of volume 5.

First edition of volumes 5 and 6. See Monkman.

The first edition of "Tristram Shandy" was issued in nine volumes from 1760 to 1767. The first eight volumes were published in pairs, and the ninth by itself. Vols. 1-4 were published by R. and J. Dodsley. Some individual volumes (or pairs of volumes) were also issued in editions other than first during the same time period.

Signatures: v. 5: [A]⁴ B-K⁸ L⁴ (leaves A1 and L4 blanks) ; v. 6: [A]² B-K⁸ L⁶.

Pagination: v. 5: [8], 150, [2] p. ; v. 6: [4], 155, [1] p.

Each volume has a half-title.

Woodcut illustrations.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy housed with: Sterne, Laurence. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. I[-II]. London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., MDCCLX [1760].

Singer-Mendenhall copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 1934 by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Singer in honor of Godfrey F. Singer.

Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copies acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.

Day Sterne Collection 8 has index card with manuscript notes in red ink laid in.

Day Sterne Collection 8 bound in 1 volume.

Day Sterne Collection 8: front pastedown and front free endpaper wanting.

Day Sterne Collection 11 imperfect: v. 5 only, leaves [A]1 (blank) and [A]4 wanting.

Day Sterne Collection 11 has dated 18th-century manuscript ownership inscription ("E Libris Gulielmi Jones Coll: S: S: Trin: Cant: 1768.") of William Jones (b. 1751) on front pastedown.

Day Sterne Collection 16: volume 5 has illegible manuscript notes in pencil on front free endpaper and a few manuscript marks in pencil in text.

Day Sterne Collection 16: each volume has early autograph ("J Stark") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Day Sterne Collection 16: volume 5: leaves of gathering [A] bound in out of order as follows: [A]3, [A]4, [A]1, [A]2.

Day Sterne Collection 21 bound in 1 volume.

Day Sterne Collection 29 imperfect: volume 6 only.

Day Sterne Collection 32 imperfect: volume 6 only.

Day Sterne Collection 32 has laid in postcard with color portrait of Laurence Sterne by Joshua Reynolds on recto and manuscript note dated Oxford 16 April 2002 to Geoffrey Day from "Kersh"[?] recording the gift of this volume.

Day Sterne Collection 32 bound in quarter brown leather over marbled boards; spine tooled in gold; evidence of spine label; printed red label ("BRITISH & FOREIGN CIRCULATING LIBRARY 6 LONDON ST NORWICH. OURY & Co Booksellers, Stationers, AND Musicsellers, PRINTING, BINDING, DI[...]TIALS, &c. &c. An early return of [...] Works is earnestly requested.") on left board.

Day Sterne Collection 36 bound in 1 volume with: Sterne, Laurence. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. VII[-VIII]. London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehont ..., MDCCLXV [1765].

Day Sterne Collection 36 imperfect: volume 5: leaves [A]1 and L4 (blanks) wanting; volume 6: leaf [A]1 wanting.

Day Sterne Collection 36 has laid in armorial bookplate of Thomas Hesilrige (arms: argent, a chevron vert between three hazel leaves slipped of the same with a mullet gules for difference; crest: on a chapeau gules turned up ermine, a man's head in profile couped at the neck proper), possibly to be identified with Sir Thomas Maynard Hesilrige, 10th Baronet Hesilrige (1740-1817).

Day Sterne Collection 36 housed in clamshell case; right board detached.

Cited in:

ESTC T14706

Cross, W.L. Sterne (3rd ed.), p. 602

Monkman, K. Florida edition of the works of Laurence Sterne, volume 2, appendix 5, V-1, VI-1

OCLC:

52422049