Title: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. IX
Description: <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;text-align:justify;">8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], 143, [1], f. [1] (blank). Calf-backed marbled boards, gilded spine, edges spread in red. Includes engraved title vignette with motto "Si je les perd [sic] je suis perdu". Manuscript signature stating "Mrs. George Palmer" on first pastedown.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;text-align:justify;">A spurious instalment of the novel Tristram Shandy, issued in nine parts during the years 1760-1766, published several months before Laurence Sterne’s genuine vol. IX (1767, published by by T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt), copies of which Sterne then signed on the title, to distinguish it from the imposture. See also ESTC, N19725; K. Monkman, “Bibliography of the early editions of Tristram Shandy,” in: The Library, 5th series, 25 (1970), 1, pp. 11-39.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039120209707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>