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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.

Accession number
PML 75426-34
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Published
[York] ; London : [publisher not identified], 1760-1767.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Tessie Jones.
Notes
A set of first editions.
Anonymous. The author's name is given only in the dedication to volume V signed: Laur. Sterne.
Imprint for first two volumes from Monkman. Monkman attributes the printing of these volumes to the press of Ann Ward in York. Volumes 3-4 imprint on title page: London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. Volumes 5-9 imprint on title page: London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1762, 1765, 1767.
Volume I: pages 73-74, printed black on both sides (when Yorick dies).
Volume III: Frontispiece by Hogarth; marbled color leaf inserted between signatures L4-L5, forming pages 169-170.
Volume IV: Pages 147-155 skipped in numbering; on page 73, "fancy" is misspelled "facy", so, according to the ESTC, this is a volume of the first edition.
Description
9 volumes : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Volume 1: signature in black in ink on front flyleaf: John Minyer (crossed out in brown ink by Charles Hancock); signature in brown ink on title page: Charles Hancock. Volume 2: signature in black ink on front flyleaf and title page: John Minyer (crossed out in brown ink); signature in brown ink on front flyleaf and title page: Charles Hancock. Volume 3: signature in brown ink on title page: Charles Hancock. Volume 4: signature in brown ink on title page: Charles Hancock. Volume 5: signature in black ink on front flyleaf and title page: John Minyer (crossed out in brown ink); signature in brown ink on front flyleaf and title page: Charles Hancock; author's signature in black ink on page 1. Volume 6: signature in black ink on title page: John Minyer (crossed out in brown ink); signature in brown ink on title page: Charles Hancock. Volume 7: signature in brown ink above bookplate inside front cover: Charles Hancock; signature in brown ink on title page: Charles Hancock; author's signature in black in on page 1. Volume 8: signature in brown ink on title page: Charles Hancock. Volume 9: signature in brown ink on title page: Charles Hancock; author's signature in black ink on page 1.
Provenance
John Minyer; Charles Hancock; bookplate of T.J. Fentham.
Binding
Contemporary brown calf, red speckled edges.
Classification
Department