The sermons of Mr. Yorick / in two volumes ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.

Contributor:

Humphreys, James, 1748-1810, printer, bookseller.

Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--Sermons.

Church of England.

Sermons, English--18th century.

Sermons, English.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Roberts, Theoderic E. (Theoderic Erasmus), Jr., 1914-1996 (inscription) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952 (inscription) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Johnson, Anne Cary, 1875-1958 (inscription) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Crenshaw, Petronella Lee Johnson (inscription) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Lee, A. S. (Ambrose Sharp), 1829-1901 (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Jackson, Jane (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) ; 17 cm

Fingerprint:

nys, s.y- onon of LE (7) 1774 (Q) v.1

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by James Humphreys, jun., [1774]

Notes:

Issued as volumes 3-4 of: The works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. Prebendary of York, and Vicar of Sutton on the Forest, and of Stillington, near York. With the life of the author ... "The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (v. 3 & 4) are also recorded separately by Evans (entry 13641) but were apparently not so issued."--ESTC.

Imprint date from ESTC.

Signatures: volume 1: [A]⁶ B-Y⁶ Z⁴ ; volume 2: A-X⁶ Y⁴ (leaf Y4 blank).

Pagination: volume 1: viii, [5], 14-270, [2] pages ; volume 2: vii, [2], 10-257, [3] pages.

Errors in pagination: volume 1: pages 89 and 241-253 numbered 98 and 240-252, respectively.

Bookseller’s advertisement on last printed leaf of volume 1.

Local Notes:

Day Sterne Collection copy imperfect: volume 1 only; all before leaf A2 (including title leaf of The works of Laurence Sterne?) wanting.

Day Sterne Collection copy bound with: Sterne, Laurence. [Sermons of Mr. Yorick]. [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [not after 1825].

Day Sterne Collection copy has manuscript note ("1933. Jan. 1-") in pencil on front pastedown; a few manuscript marks in ink or pencil in text.

Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy purchased in 2020 from Black Cat Hill Books.

Day Sterne Collection copy has on front pastedown manuscript inscription ("Theoderic E. Roberts Presented on graduation from U.J. Seminary Richmond, Va by Miss Edna Turpin Chase City and Richmond, Va. Miss Annie Johnson Chase City Richmond, Va. Mrs. Nellie J. Crenshaw Chase City, Va.") recording the gift of this volume to Theoderic E. Roberts, Jr. (1914-1996), from Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1867-1952) and her half-sisters Anne Cary Johnson (1875-1958) and Petronella Lee Johnson Crenshaw (1879-1954) in blue ink.

Day Sterne Collection copy has on front free endpaper autograph ("A.S. Lee."), probably of Ambrose Sharp Lee (1829-1901), maternal uncle of Edna Henry Lee Turpin, on front pastedown.

Day Sterne Collection copy has dated 18th-century autograph ("Jane Jackson 1774") at head of leaf [A]3r.

Day Sterne Collection copy: spine damaged.

Cited in:

ESTC W20945

Evans 13641

OCLC:

702324043