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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne ; with illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 240
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.
- Fiction.
- Infants--Fiction.
- Infants.
- Fetus--Fiction.
- Fetus.
- English fiction--18th century.
- English fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Wheelwright, Rowland, 1870- (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 582 pages, [17] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge : Printed in Great Britain by Walter Lewis, M.A., at the University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Calcutta ; Sydney : George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1926.
- Notes:
- "Edition limited to one thousand copies for England and one thousand copies for the United States ..."--Limitation statement.
- "Printed by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., from the edition in their Library of English Classics"--Verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copies 1 and 2 acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Day Sterne Collection copy 1 is number 72 of the English issue (the copy number supplied in manuscript), signed by the illustrator, of a limited edition of 1000 copies. See limitation statement.
- Day Sterne Collection copy 1 has laid in pamphlet (7, [1] pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm) with title: Come, a bold stroke with a pen;or, the only way to preserve and put to proper use Shandy Hall, the oldest, the most unspoiled home of a great English novelist ... (Printed in the year MCMLXX for the Laurence Sterne Trust).
- Day Sterne Collection copy 1 has laid in 2 leaves of folded hotel invoices with manuscript notes headed "Master James Francis Edward Keith 1696-1758" on verso of the second leaf.
- Day Sterne Collection copy 1: dust jacket retained; untrimmed fore- and tail edges; gilt tops.
- Day Sterne Collection copy 1 is number 49 of the English issue (the copy number supplied in manuscript), signed by the illustrator, of a limited edition of 1000 copies. See limitation statement.
- Day Sterne Collection copy 2 has dated 20th-century manuscript gift inscription ("For Horace with love from H.P.R.F. Christmas 1926.") on front free endpaper.
- Day Sterne Collection copy 2: untrimmed fore- and tail edges; gilt tops.
- OCLC:
- 6027006
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