Shelfmark
Em.5.09 - Em.5.10
Author
Uniform title
[Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. 1-2]
Title
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
[York] : [printed by Ann Ward], 1760.. [i.e., 1759]
Physical description
2 v. ; 16cm. (8vo)
Note
Anonymous. By Laurence Sterne.
Note
Vols. 1 and 2.
Note
Vol. 1, sig. I6 is a cancel.
Note
Pagination: [2],179,[1]; [2],182 p.
Note
"Undoubtedly on sale in York sometime in December 1759, but no advertisement known earlier than 1 January 1760" (K. Monkman).
Note
Vol. 1 has the 'black pages' following p. 72.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T14780
Citation/references note
Monkman, K. The Florida edition of the works of Laurence Sterne, appendix 5., I-1 II-1
Provenance
Bookseller's codes and price on upper pastedown of first volume; purchased as a nine-volume set.
Binding
21st century quarter brown calf binding with blue and red marbled paper over boards. Both covers otherwise undecorated; medium-wide squares. Spine with five raised bands, tooled across with a gilt chevron-pattern roll, with the same at head and tail; panels tooled with a central gilt stamp (a crowned flower within a circle with protruding stems) and fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, all within a border of gilt double fillets; second panel with spine label (gilt titling over red morocco onlay: "Tristram Shandy"), third panel with vol. no (gilt arabic numeral over black morocco inlay, decorated as the other panels; see additional note below). Textblock trimmed and undecorated. Endpapers comprising a bifolium of laid-effect paper (pastedown and flyleaf).
Binding
Volume numbers gilt-tooled on spine are continous from these first two volumes through the ninth (Em.5.17); the bindings also are identical.
Copy-specific note
For vols. 3-4 (ESTC T14705), see shelfmarks Em.5.11 - Em.5.12; for vols. 5-6 (ESTC T14706), see Em.5.13 - Em..5.14; for vols. 7-8 (ESTC T14820), see Em.5.15 - Em.5.16; for vol. 9 (ESTC T14824), see Em.5.17.
Copy-specific note
ECL previous shelfmark: Em.7.01 - Em.7.02.
Subject
English literature 18th century.
Subject
Fiction Authorship Fiction.
Subject
Young men England Fiction.
Subject
England Social life and customs Fiction 18th century.
Added entry--name
Ward, Anne, ? - -1789 printer.
Added entry--place
England York
Language code
eng
Identifier
B19402