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, 8 o (179 x 109 mm). Half-titles, 16-page list of subscribers, Sterne's engraved coat-of-arms on D3v of vol. II. (Tiny marginal burn hole in two leaves, without the advertisement leaf.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Louis H. Silver (morocco label), sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1965, lot 330 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 1 February 1968. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 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." Although it was certainly a more sentimental book than Tristram Shandy , the presiding spirit of the author was otherwise the same. "Yorick in Tristram Shandy, was represented as an Englishman, descended from the Yorick of Shakespeare, 'a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.' Sterne also used the pseudonym in his Sermon by Mr. Yorick, published in 1760, so that the authorship of this book was probably never in doubt. 'The lively, witty, sensitive and heedless parson,' was, as Sir Walter Scott says, 'the well-known personification of Sterne himself.'" Grolier English 54; Rothschild 1971. (2)
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, 8 o (179 x 109 mm). Half-titles, 16-page list of subscribers, Sterne's engraved coat-of-arms on D3v of vol. II. (Tiny marginal burn hole in two leaves, without the advertisement leaf.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Louis H. Silver (morocco label), sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1965, lot 330 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 1 February 1968. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 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." Although it was certainly a more sentimental book than Tristram Shandy , the presiding spirit of the author was otherwise the same. "Yorick in Tristram Shandy, was represented as an Englishman, descended from the Yorick of Shakespeare, 'a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.' Sterne also used the pseudonym in his Sermon by Mr. Yorick, published in 1760, so that the authorship of this book was probably never in doubt. 'The lively, witty, sensitive and heedless parson,' was, as Sir Walter Scott says, 'the well-known personification of Sterne himself.'" Grolier English 54; Rothschild 1971. (2)
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