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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. I[-II]
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 19 v.1/2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 49 v.1/2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
- 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) (Day Sterne Collection 41)
- Rishton, Martin Folkes, 1747-1820 (bookplate) (Day Sterne Collection 49)
- Allen, Stephen, 1724-1763 (bookplate) (Day Sterne Collection 49)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Manufacture:
- [York] : [Printed by Ann Ward], 1760 [i.e. 1759]
- Fingerprint:
- y,py adhe e.r. alFe (3) 1759 (Q) v.1
- 'she y.r- .-ll ceof (3) 1759 (Q) v.2
- Notes:
- "Anonymous. By Laurence Sterne."--ESTC.
- Place of printing, printer's name, and actual date of printing supplied from ESTC. See also Monkman.
- Signatures: v. 1: pi1 A-H⁸ I⁸(±I6) K-L⁸ M² ; v. 2: pi1 A-L⁸ M⁴(-M4).
- Pagination: v. 1: [2], 179, [1] pages ; v. 2: [2], 182 pages.
- Title leaf of volume 2 "[p]rinted from standing type of I-1 with change of volume number."--Monkman.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copies acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Day Sterne Collection 19 bound in 1 volume.
- Day Sterne Collection 41 imperfect: volume 2 only.
- Day Sterne Collection 41 has bookplate ("Goldring s Library") of Goldring's Circulating Library (Petworth, England) affixed to front pastedown.
- Day Sterne Collection 49 bound in 1 volume.
- Day Sterne Collection 49 has on front pastedown armorial bookplate of Martin Folkes Rishton, Esq. (1747-1820) pasted over bookplate of an unidentified former owner (possibly his father-in-law Stephen Allen, 1724-1763).
- Day Sterne Collection 49 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 T14780
- Monkman, K. Florida edition of the works of Laurence Sterne, volume 2, appendix 5, I-1, II-1
- OCLC:
- 1112465897
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