The works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. Prebendary of York, and Vicar of Sutton on the Forest, and of Stillington, near York. With the life of the author. In six volumes. Vol. I[-VI].

People / Organizations

• Laurence Sterne (Author)

Imprint

[Philadelphia]: London printed. Philadelphia, re-printed; by James Humphreys, Junior, in Front-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]

Publication year

1774-1774

ESTC No.

W20946

Grub Street ID

330668

Description

6v.⁰ : ill., 1 port. ; 12⁰

Note

"No 'vol. 6' known."--Shipton & Mooney.

Title of v. 4-5 varies: without "With the life of the author." - Also issued in five volumes (Evans 13640), "The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy" being issued in two volumes rather than three. The fifth volume of that issue would correspond to the sixth volume of the present issue.

Pagination: v. 1, xiv, xii, [2], [xiii]-xiv, [1], 16-262 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2, [7], 268-522 [i.e., 268-512] p.; v. 3, [2], 196 p.; v. 4, viii, [5], 14-270, [2] p.; v. 5, vii, [2], 10-257, [3] p.

Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 332-512 misnumbered 342-522; v. 4, p. 89, 241-253 misnumbered 98, 240-252.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [a]?(+-a1) b?(b1+A?) B-U? X? (X3+chi1) Y?; v. 2, pi1 [Y]5,6 Z-2G? 2H?(-2H1) 2I-2T? 2U?; v. 3, pi1 [A]? B-R?; v. 4, [A]? B-Y? Z?; v. 5, A-X? Y? (Y3 verso, Y4 blank). - VERIFY EXISTENCE OF, AND DETERMINE PAGINATION, SIGNATURES AND CONTENTS OF V. 6