The works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. Prebendary of York, and Vicar of Sutton on the Forest, and of Stillington, near York
Subtitle: With the life of the author. : In six volumes. : Vol. I[-VI]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42706
Publisher: London printed. Philadelphia, re-printed; by James Humphreys, Junior, in Front-Street.
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Portraits
Other titles: Works of Laurence Sterne.
Notes: "No 'vol. 6' known."--Shipton & Mooney.

Title of v. 4-5 varies: without "With the life of the author."

Also issued in five volumes (Evans 13640), "The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy" being issued in two volumes rather than three. The fifth volume of that issue would correspond to the sixth volume of the present issue.

Signatures: [a]⁶(+-a1) b²(b1+A⁶) B-U⁶ X⁶ (X3+chi1) Y⁴; v. 2, pi1 [Y]5,6 Z-2G⁶ 2H⁶(-2H1) 2I-2T⁶ 2U⁴; v. 3, pi1 [A]² B-R⁶; v. 4, [A]⁶ B-Y⁶ Z⁴; v. 5, A-X⁶ Y⁴ (Y3 verso, Y4 blank).

Pagination: v. 1, xiv, xii, [2], [xiii]-xiv, [1], 16-262 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2, [7], 268-522 [i.e., 268-512] p.; v. 3, [2], 196 p.; v. 4, viii, [5], 14-270, [2] p.; v. 5, vii, [2], 10-257, [3] p.

Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 332-512 misnumbered 342-522; v. 4, p. 89, 241-253 misnumbered 98, 240-252.

Bookseller's advertisement, v. 4, p. [271-272].

Bristol B3860

Shipton & Mooney 42706
Table of contents: title: v. 1-3 The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy; title: v. 4-5 The sermons of Mr. Yorick.; title: "List of subscribers," v. 1, p. [iii]-xiv, 1st count.