Suite et fin de la vie et des opinions de Tristram Shandy, : suivies de mélanges, lettres, pensées, bons-mots, & memoires; /
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| Language: | French |
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A Londres [that is, France?] :
[publisher not identified],
1785.
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| Item Description: | The first translation, by Antoine-Gilbert Griffet de La Baume, of parts 5-9 of Sterne's "Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, (originally published in in English in 9 parts in 5 installments, 1759-1767). Cf. Monkman & Oates. "M.D.L.B." = A.G. Griffet de La Baume. Called "Troisieme et quatrieme partie" because regarded as continuing the two-volume translation by Frénais of La vie et les opinions de Tristram Shandy, volumes 1-4. Probably the imprint is false, and the book printed in France. Signatures: volume 1: pi1 a⁸ b² ( -b2) A-O¹² P² ( -P2); volume 2 2: pi1 A-O¹² P⁶. Volume 1: [2], xviii, 337, [1] p.; volume 2: [2], 347 pages, [1] p. (last page blank). Errata: volume 1, page 337.; volume 2, page. 346. Booksellers' advertisments, volume 1, page [1] at end; volume 2: pages 346-347. Cf. Monkman & Oates. Towards a Sterne bib. (in The Winged Skull, pages 279-310), 43, 51, and page 290, "The Text of Tristram." "Melanges, lettres, pensées et mémoires de L. Sterne," volume 2, pages 161-345. Possibly a translation of "The posthumous works of a late celebrated genius, deceased", attributed to Richard Griffith, written in imitation of Sterne and often attributed to him. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes in 1 : 1 illustration ; 17 cm (12mo) |