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Auction archive: Lot number 422

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 422

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Author: [Sterne, Laurence] Place: London Publisher: T. Becket and P.A, DeHondt Date: 1768 Description: 2 volumes. (2), [i-iii], iv-xx, 203; (4), [1]-208 pp. With half titles and list of subscribers at front of Volume I. (8vo) contemporary full calf, covers ruled in gilt, spines ruled and numbered in gilt. Housed in a brown cloth, fleece-lined clamshell box. First Edition. Sterne died just three weeks after publication. Following Tristam Shandy, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was Sterne’s most-popular work. “The book was no doubt based on Sterne’s two journey’s abroad in 1762-4 and 1765. It was well received by the public…and is probably the first English novel to survive in the handwriting of its author” (Oxford Companion to English Literature, 885). Volume I in second state, p. 150 reading “vous.” Volume II in first state, p. 133 reading “who have.” Rothschild 1971. Lowndes 2509. Grolier English Hundred 54. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed, previous owner's name and initials on endpapers; near fine. Item number: 262378

Auction archive: Lot number 422
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 2015
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Author: [Sterne, Laurence] Place: London Publisher: T. Becket and P.A, DeHondt Date: 1768 Description: 2 volumes. (2), [i-iii], iv-xx, 203; (4), [1]-208 pp. With half titles and list of subscribers at front of Volume I. (8vo) contemporary full calf, covers ruled in gilt, spines ruled and numbered in gilt. Housed in a brown cloth, fleece-lined clamshell box. First Edition. Sterne died just three weeks after publication. Following Tristam Shandy, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was Sterne’s most-popular work. “The book was no doubt based on Sterne’s two journey’s abroad in 1762-4 and 1765. It was well received by the public…and is probably the first English novel to survive in the handwriting of its author” (Oxford Companion to English Literature, 885). Volume I in second state, p. 150 reading “vous.” Volume II in first state, p. 133 reading “who have.” Rothschild 1971. Lowndes 2509. Grolier English Hundred 54. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed, previous owner's name and initials on endpapers; near fine. Item number: 262378

Auction archive: Lot number 422
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 2015
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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