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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. VII[-VIII].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 45 v.7-8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.
- 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:
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copies)
- Goldring's Circulating Library (Petworth, England) (bookplate) (Day Sterne Collection 45)
- Rishton, Martin Folkes, 1747-1820 (bookplate) (Day Sterne Collection 52)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Distribution:
- London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehont ..., MDCCLXV [1765, i.e. 1770]
- Fingerprint:
- sey- e.e, n-nd anur (3) 1770 (Q) v.7
- ngby s.of !-he ofso (3) 1770 (Q) v.8
- Notes:
- "Anonymous. By Laurence Sterne."--ESTC.
- Signatures: v. 7: [A]1 B-L⁸ ; v. 8: [A]1 B-K⁸ L⁶.
- Pagination: v. 7: [2], 160 pages ; v. 8: [2], 156 pages.
- "A resetting in 1770 of the first edition made necessary, according to Monkman, in order to complete sets of the whole work; distinguished from the first edition by having 'GENTLEMAN' set in one size of capitals."--ESTC.
- Verso of title leaf is blank.
- "The misnumbering of chapters in VII-1 has been corrected."--Monkman.
- "The type of page-number 21 [in volume 8] is damaged and indecipherable."--Monkman.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copies acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Day Sterne Collection 45: volume 7 has bookplate of Goldring's Circulating Library (Petworth, England) affixed to front pastedown
- Day Sterne Collection 52 bound with: Sterne, Laurence. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. IX. London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt ..., MDCCLXVII [1767].
- Day Sterne Collection 52 bound in 1 volume.
- Day Sterne Collection 52 has on front pastedown armorial bookplate of Martin Folkes Rishton, Esq. (1747-1820).
- Day Sterne Collection 52 bound in full speckled calf(?); gold-tooled cover edges; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("TRISTRAM SHANDY."); gold-tooled black leather spine label with volume numbers; all edges stippled red.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N19731
- Monkman, K. Florida edition of the works of Laurence Sterne, volume 2, appendix 5, VII-[2], VIII-[2]
- OCLC:
- 52421329
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