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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.
Contributor:
Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797, bookseller.
Richardson, William, 1735 or 1736-1811, bookseller.
J. Robson and W. Clarke, bookseller.
Logographic Press, printer.
Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)
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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