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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; in two volumes ... ; with eight etchings by Damman from original drawings by Harry Furniss.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 248 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infants--Fiction.
- Infants.
- Fetus--Fiction.
- Fetus.
- England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- England.
- Parent and child--Fiction.
- Parent and child.
- Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.
- Fiction.
- English fiction--18th century.
- English fiction.
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Stream of consciousness fiction.
- Experimental fiction.
- Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh ; and London : Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
- Other Title:
- Tristram Shandy
- Place of Publication:
- London : J.C. Nimmo and Bain ..., 1883.
- Notes:
- "Only 150 Copies of this Edition on laid paper, medium 8vo, with proof Etchings on Whatman paper, have been printed, and are numbered consecutively as issued."--Limitation statement.
- Printer statement from colophon at end of each volume.
- Pagination: volume 1: [6], 408 pages, [5] leaves of plates ; volume 2: [6], 358 pages, [3] leaves of plates.
- Title of each volume printed in red and black.
- Local Notes:
- Day Sterne Collection copy is number 124 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 150 copies. See limitation statement.
- Day Sterne Collection copy: each volume has bookseller's manuscript notes in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Day Sterne Collection copy has [6] pages of publisher's advertisement bound in at end of volume 2.
- OCLC:
- 7665257
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