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The works of Laurence Sterne : complete in eight volumes ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 68 v.1-3,5-8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768, author.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Pawling, Rebecca, fl. 1836 (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)
- Atkinson, John (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 volumes : illustrations, coat of arms, facsimiles ; 18 cm
- Fingerprint:
- ntme p-n. h,ir "t"a (7) 1790 (R) v.1
- ofnd t.f, t-as is-B (7) 1790 (R) v.2
- heto ctng I.-- brWh (7) 1790 (R) v.3
- heta n.y. d-s. rsre (7) 1790 (R) v.5
- .-is S.s. E.D! asma (C) 1790 (R) v.6
- DYas s.ed ino- ifin (7) 1790 (R) v.7
- y.UI. 'sd? ndbe esth (7) 1790 (R) v.8
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the proprietors, MDCCXC [1790]
- Contents:
- Vol. I-III. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
- v. III. A political romance, addressed to [three dashes] [four dashes], esq., of York
- v. IV. A sentimental journey through France and Italy
- v. V. The Koran
- v. VI. Letters of the late Laurence Sterne to his most intimate friends, with a fragment in the manner of Rabelais
- v. VII-VIII. Sermons.
- Notes:
- "Title to vols.5 and 7: '... In eight volumes complete. ...'."--ESTC.
- Signatures: v. 1: a² b¹² B-O¹² P⁶ ; v. 2: a² A-M¹² N⁶ (leaf A1 unsigned) ; v. 3: a² A-L¹² ; v. 5: A-K¹² L⁴ ; v. 6: A-L¹² M⁸ ; v. 7: A-M¹² N¹⁰ ; v. 8: A-N¹² O⁶ (leaf O6 blank).
- Pagination: v. 1: xxiii, [6], 26-347, [1] pages ; v. 2: 85, 96-314 pages ; v. 3: 268 pages ; v. 5: 248 pages ; v. 6: xvi, [1], 18-279, [1] pages ; v. 7: 308 pages ; v. 8: vi, [1], 8-322, [2] pages.
- Includes an account of the life and writings of the author.
- Local Notes:
- Day Sterne Collection copy imperfect: volume 4 wanting.
- Day Sterne Collection copy: volume 1 has bookseller's[?] manuscript note in pencil on front pastedown; volume 2 has a few manuscript marginal notes in pencil in text; each volume has manuscript inscription ("RY") in pencil on front pastedown.
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Day Sterne Collection copy: volumes 1-3 and 6-7 each has autograph ("John Atkinson Bolton 1793") on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T142347
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Works of Laurence Sterne.
- OCLC:
- 6928485
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