Shelfmark
Em.5.13 - Em.5.14
Author
Uniform title
[Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. 5-6]
Title
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. V [-VI].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, in the Strand,, MDCCLXII.. [1762]
Physical description
2 v. ; 16cm. (8vo)
Note
Dedication to vol.5 signed: Laur. Sterne.
Note
Vols. 5 and 6.
Note
Autograph signature of the author in vol. 5, p. 1.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T14706
Citation/references note
Monkman, K. Florida edition of the works of Laurence Sterne, appendix 5., V-1, VI-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 through the ninth (Em.5.17), including these vols. 5-6; the bindings also are identical.
Copy-specific note
For vols. 1-2 (ESTC T14780), see shelfmarks Em.5.09 - Em.5.10; for vols. 3-4 (ESTC T14705), see shelfmarks Em.5.11 - Em.5.12; 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.7.05 - Em.7.06.
Subject
Young men Fiction 18th century England.
Subject
Fiction Authorship Fiction.
Subject
Young men Fiction England.
Subject
English literature 18th century.
Subject
England Social life and customs Fiction 18th century.
Added entry--name
Becket, Thomas, fl. 1760 - 1815 bookseller.
Added entry--name
De Hondt, P.A. (Peter Abraham), fl. 1760 - 1776 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London
Language code
eng
Identifier
B19406