Shelfmark
Em.5.15 - Em.5.16
Author
Uniform title
[Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. 7-8]
Title
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehont, in the Strand, MDCCLXV.. [1765]
Physical description
2 v. ; 16cm. (8vo)
Note
Anonymous. By Laurence Sterne.
Note
Vols. 7-8.
Note
Autograph signature of the author in vol. 7, p. 1.
Note
Distinguishable from [1770] reprint by setting of 'GENTLEMAN' with initial G larger than rest of word.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T14820
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. 7-8; 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. 5-6 (ESTC T14706), see Em.5.13 - Em..5.14; for vol. 9 (ESTC T14824), see Em.5.17.
Copy-specific note
ECL previous shelfmark: Em.7.08 - Em.7.09.
Subject
Young men Fiction 18th century 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
B19407