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[STERNE, Laurence (1713-1768)]. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick. London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768.
2 volumes, 8o (145 x 92 mm). Half-titles, 16-page list of subscribers, Sterne's engraved coat-of-arms on D3v of vol. II. (light browning and staining, mostly marginal, without the advertisement leaf.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco label (light wear to joints and edges).
FIRST EDITION, with Rothschild's variant (2), Vol. I, p. 150 and variant (1), vol. II, page 133. Sterne barely lived to see his work in print. "The real journey immortalized in the story was made in October, 1765," states Grolier, "in December, 1767, two volumes were completed, and on February 27, the work was published... On the eighteenth of March, Sterne died." Grolier English 54; Rothschild 1971. (2)
2 volumes, 8o (145 x 92 mm). Half-titles, 16-page list of subscribers, Sterne's engraved coat-of-arms on D3v of vol. II. (light browning and staining, mostly marginal, without the advertisement leaf.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco label (light wear to joints and edges).
FIRST EDITION, with Rothschild's variant (2), Vol. I, p. 150 and variant (1), vol. II, page 133. Sterne barely lived to see his work in print. "The real journey immortalized in the story was made in October, 1765," states Grolier, "in December, 1767, two volumes were completed, and on February 27, the work was published... On the eighteenth of March, Sterne died." Grolier English 54; Rothschild 1971. (2)