Shelfmark
Em.8.06
Author
Collective uniform title
Letters
Title
Original letters of the late Reverend Mr. Laurence Sterne; never before published..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by T. Longman, Pater-Noster Row; J. Robson, and W. Clarke, New Bond Street; and W. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange, 1788..
Physical description
[4], 216p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Note
39 letters, of which nos. 8, 23, 35 may be genuine; the remainder are thought to be forgeries by William Combe.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Citation/references note
English Short Title Catalog, T14810.
Provenance
20th century pictorial bookplate of C. J. M. Adie on upper pastedown, obscuring earlier inscription or bookseller's notes.
Provenance
Manuscript signature in an 18th or 19th century hand on title-page recto, unread.
Binding
Late 18th or early 19th century mid-brown tree calfover ?millboard, sewn on four recessed supports. Both covers undecorated; medium squares, the board edges tooled with a gilt roll. Spine smooth and rounded, divided into six panels by a transverse gilt chain-pattern roll; second panel with spine label (gilt titling over red morocco onlay: "Sterne letters"); endbands of alternating red and plain thead. Textblock trimmed. Endpapers comprising a bifolium of plain laid paper (pastedown and flyleaf).
Subject
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Longman, Thomas, 1731 - 1797 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Logographic Press printer.
Added entry--name
J. Robson and W. Clarke bookseller.
Added entry--title
Original letters of the late Reverend Mr. Laurence Sterne.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50958