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Original letters of the late Reverend Mr. Laurence Sterne : never before published.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 116 item 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.
- Combe, William, 1742-1823, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768--Correspondence.
- Sterne, Laurence.
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768--Forgeries.
- Literary forgeries and mystifications--Specimens.
- Literary forgeries and mystifications.
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Forgery.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 216 pages ; 19 cm (12mo)
- Distribution:
- London ... : And sold by T. Longman, Pater-noster Row, J. Robson and W. Clarke, New Bond Street, and W. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange, 1788.
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed at the Logographic Press ..., 1788.
- Other Title:
- Letters of the late Mr. Laurence Sterne
- Fingerprint:
- ngou anl- e-i- Ipas (3) 1788 (A)
- Notes:
- "39 letters, of which nos. 8, 23, 35 may be genuine. The remainder are thought to be forgeries by William Combe."--ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]² B-K¹².
- With a half-title.
- Local Notes:
- Day Sterne Collection copy bound with: Sterne, Laurence. Letters from Yorick to Eliza. London : Printed for G. Kearsly ... and T. Evans ..., 1775.
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Day Sterne Collection copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy laid in.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T14810
- OCLC:
- 8391042
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