The letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, to his most intimate friends : with a fragment in the manner of Rabelais. To which are prefix'd, memoirs of his life and family /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for T. Becket, the corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand,
1775.
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| Item Description: | First edition; see Cambridge bibliography of English literature, volume 2, page 522. Volume 1 has half-title. Portrait of Madame de Medalle engraved by James Caldwall from a painting by Benjamin West. Comprises 117 letters, including two from correspondents of Sterne. Letter 58 may be a forgery (see ESTC). Pagination: volume 1: xx, 175 pages, 1 unnumbered page, [1] leaf of plates (frontispiece); volume 2: 2 unnumbered pages, 192 pages; volume 3: 2 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 1 unnumbered page. Publisher's advertisement follows text of volume one. The Cushing Library/Rare Books Collection copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 3 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) ; 16 cm |