Shelfmark
Em.5.17
Author
Uniform title
[Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Vol. 9]
Title
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed [by William Strahan] for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, in the Strand., MDCCLXVII.. [1767].
Physical description
[6], 145, [1] p. ; 16cm. (8vo)
Note
Anonymous. By Laurence Sterne.
Note
Vol. 9
Note
With the author's signature on p. 1.
Note
Several press variants have been found.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Strahan printed 3500 copies (Monkman); Maslen and Lancaster, Bowyer ledgers, incorrectly attribute this printing to William Bowyer (entry 4646); see W.G. Day, 'Surreptitious publication of the spurious volume IX of Tristram Shandy', in Library, ser. 7, 16:4 (December 2015), 467-471.
Citation/references note
Monkman, K. The Florida edition of the works of Laurence Sterne, appendix 5., IX-1a and b
Citation/references note
ESTC, T14824
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 this ninth; 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 vols. 7-8 (ESTC T14820), see Em.5.15 - Em.5.16.
Copy-specific note
ECL previous shelfmark: Em.7.09
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--name
Strahan, William, 1715 - 1785 printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B19423