A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

Archer hinges a little rubbed, frontispiece and title-page a little brown-spotted due to offsetting from endpapers, otherwise a very attractive and clean copy with only occasional light toning provenance: near-contemporary engraved armorial bookplate Charles Montolieu Burges inside front cover. iv,, 272, engraved portrait frontispiece after Reynolds and five engraved plates after M. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with black morocco lettering-piece, ruled and ornamented in gilt pp. Contents lightly foxed and browned, some light page-creasing throughout.

Nicely rebound in quarter calf, spine in six compartments stamped in blind and numbered in gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, end papers renewed. of York, Sterne's satire on ecclesiastical disputes at York, originally published in 1759 but suppressed. V is 'A political romance, addressed to - Esq. III (which also includes 'Some account of the life and writings of Mr. By Eugenius' (i.e., John Hall-Stevenson) comprises vols. 'Yorick's sentimental journey, continued. Three titles bound in one, all issued (no printer or publisher given) in 1769, complete in five volumes, continuously paginated in Arabic and Roman numerals. Unlike prior travel accounts which stressed classical learning and objective non-personal points of view, A Sentimental Journey emphasized the subjective discussions of personal taste and sentiments - manners and morals… First published in 1768 (a couple of weeks before Sterne died), it helped establish travel writing as the dominant genre of the second half of the 18th century. In 1765 Sterne traveled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view (as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels). A Sentimental Journey was one of his most popular works. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. Attractive 1860's binding by Malet (?) morocco leather backed marbled boards raised bands. Edition Very rare early American edition.Some wear to joints and corners, browning and spotting of text. Bookseller James Cummins Bookseller (US)Ĭontemporary sheep, later morocco label.

Clarkin 'Mathew Carey' 651 NUC lists 6 copies Not in Shaw and Shoemaker. From the library of Carl Albert Lohmann with bookplate. Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Carey, 1810.

A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne