The works of Laurence Sterne
Subtitle: in six volumes; containing The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gent--A sentimental journey through France and Italy--sermons--letters, &c. : with a life of the author, written by himself. : Volume I[-VI]
Contributors: Maverick, Peter, 1780-1831, engraver; Gimbrede, Thomas, 1781-1832, engraver; Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver; Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834, illustrator; Stebbins, Chester, 1777?-1819, printer; William Durell and Co; O'Reilly, Mary Boyle, 1873- former owner; O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890, dedicatee
Series: British classics -- 59-64.
Publisher: Published by William Durell and Co. ...
Published: 1813
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Work titles: Works
Notes: Added series title page: The British classicks: volume the fifty-ninth[-seventy-fourth] [i.e. sixty-fourth]. Containing the first[-sixth] volume of Sterne's works. 1813[-1814]. Vols. 2, 4, 5, 5 erroniously numbered seventieth, seventy-second, seventy-third, seventy-fourth on the series title page. Vol. 5 issued in printed boards is correctly given as volume LXIII on the spine.

Frontispieces, v. 2, 3, 5 and 6 engraved by P. Maverick, v. 5 and 6 after T. Stothard. Frontispiece, v. 4, engraved by T. Gimbrede. Some wood-engravings signed: Anderson.

Vols. 5-6 dated 1814.

Vol. 1: xviii, [2], 88, [3], 94-345, 356-385, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 2: 360 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 3: 298 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 4: viii, [3], 12-266 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 5: viii, [3], 12-256 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 6: 417, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates. Last page of v. 1 and 6 blank.

Error in paging: v. 6, p. 133 misnumbered 331.

"Hot pressed edition. British classics. To be completed in about one hundred volumes, duodecimo. ..."--Cover.

"Hot pressed edition. British classics. Terms. ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 29866

Pomeroy, J.R. Anderson, 428

Burns Library copy: all volumes have Boston College ("Collegium Bostoniense") bookplate on front pastedown bearing motto: In memory of John Boyle O'Reilly

Burns Library copy: all volumes have bookbinder's label on front pastedown: Francis D. Hetzler, plain and fancy ruling, and book binding. Sun Iron Building, Balt.

Burns Library copy: all volumes have in manuscript, at fore-edge head of recto front flyleaf, "Mary Boyle O'Reilly, 1898."