Shelfmark
Em.5.11 - Em.5.12
Author
Uniform title
[Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. 3-4]
Title
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall., M.DCC.LXI.. [1761]
Physical description
2 v., [1] leaf of plates ; 16cm. (8vo)
Note
Anonymous. By Laurence Sterne.
Note
Vols. 3 and 4.
Note
Vol. IV catchword on p. 19 "'Tis" or "There's" (Monkman).
Note
Vol. III. press variants: line 16 p. 160 "woulda ciad" or "would a citadel"; line 3 p. 171 "me.'" or "me.""; line 20 p. 187 "aud" or "and". Of the eight possible combinations of the above, four are recorded: III-1a: woulda ciad / me.' / aud; III-1b: woulda ciad / me." / aud; III-1c: would a citadel / me.' / and; III-1d: would a citadel / me." / and.
Note
A marbled leaf is inserted between sigs. L4-L5 in vol. 3, forming pp. 169-170.
Note
"Because the frontispiece is keyed to an incident in vol. IV, it is sometimes found with that volume; it is however conjugate with A8 of vol. III" (Monkman).
Note
There is a concealed second edition of vol. IV in 1761; this is easily distinguished by the correct spelling of "fancy" on p. 73; in the first edition it is mis-spelt "facy".
Citation/references note
ESTC, T14705
Citation/references note
Monkman, K., Florida edition of the works of Laurence Sterne, appendix 5., III-1, IV-1
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 the first volume (Em.5.09) through the ninth (Em.5.17) including these vols. 3-4; the bindings also are identical.
Copy-specific note
Of the eight possible combinations of the press variants described in the General Note above, the Eton copy is III-1b.
Copy-specific note
Of the two catchwords on p. 19 described in the General Note above, the Eton copy has catchword "'Tis" on p. 19 of Vol. IV.
Copy-specific note
For vols. 1-2 (ESTC T14780), see shelfmarks Em.5.09 - Em.5.10; 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.7.03 - Em.7.04.
Subject
Young men Fiction England.
Subject
Fiction Authorship Fiction.
Subject
English literature 18th century.
Subject
England Social life and customs Fiction 18th century.
Genre/Form
Novels
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Dodsley, James, 1724 - 1797 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B19404