Letters written between Yorick and Eliza : with Sterne's letters to his friends.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.

Combe, William, 1742-1823, author.

Contributor:

Draper, Elizabeth, 1744-1778, correspondent.

Schneider, Adam Gottlieb, 1745-1815, publisher.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768--Correspondence.

Sterne, Laurence.

Authors, English--18th century--Correspondence.

Authors, English.

Draper, Elizabeth, 1744-1778--Correspondence.

Draper, Elizabeth.

Draper, Elizabeth, 1744-1778.

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Bücherei Haus Hall (stamp) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

127, [1] pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Manufacture:

[Leipzig] : [printer not identified]

Fingerprint:

emem r.er ers, exle (3) 1788 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for A.T. Taylor, 1788.

[Nuremberg] : [Printed for Adam Gottlieb Schneider]

Notes:

Yorick is Laurence Sterne. See ESTC.

"With the 'Letters from Eliza to Yorick', attributed to William Combe, interspersed with Sterne's letters. 'Sterne's letters to his friends on various occasions' has a separate dated title page on E4r. Several of the letters are thought to be forgeries by William Combe."--ESTC.

"The imprint is false. Probably printed in Leipzig, possibly for Adam Gottlieb Schneider in Nuremberg. See Jefcoate, Graham. 'German books in the ESTC'. Factotum, no. 29, August 1989, p.19-21."--ESTC.

Signatures: A-H⁸.

Woodcut title vignette.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy has early manuscript notes on front pastedown and free endpapers; top portion of front free endpaper excised with loss of manuscript text.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from James Burmeister Rare Books.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has blue ink stamp ("BÜCHEREI HAUS HALL") at head of title leaf.

Cited in:

ESTC T181495

Contains:

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Sterne's letters to his friends on various occasions.

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. History of a watch coat.

OCLC:

512496