Laurence Sterne Eugenius (4 results)

Condition: NEW.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. [144pp, Wrigley mould-made stock retaining deckles]: xvi, 128; gilt-decorated rose linen; 221 x 141 x 16 mm. First separate edition, issued privately as Volume One of The Georgian Society's Publications in a strictly limited edition of 300 numbered copies (this copy No 85); first issue, without frontis. Written by his friend John Hall-Stevenson as a completion to Sterne's unfinished second novel, 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr Yorick' (originally 1768 in 2 volumes), & appended to the 1769 posthumous edition (in 4 volumes). Note that the 132pp volume, 'Continuation of Yorick's Sentimental Journey' (1788: Printed for the author at the Literary Press, London) is not the same work. Proprietor of the decayed Skelton Castle, founder of the Demoniack Club & head Demoniack, John Hall-Stevenson (1718-85) was an indefatigable literary provocateur infamous for his deviltry. The present edition includes: Hall's 9pp Preface; 'Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued' in two consecutively-paged volumes (I: 1-48; II: 49-108); & Sterne's suppressed tract of 1759, 'A Political Romance Addressed to [blank], Esq. of York' (109-28); each with separate title-page. Whether the Georgian Society has anything to do with the society of the same name active in Dublin in 1909, remains uncertain. A nice copy, gilt bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good plus. [144pp, Wrigley mould-made stock retaining deckles, guarded frontis]: xvi, 128; gilt-decorated rose linen; 221 x 141 x 16 mm. First separate edition, issued privately as Volume One of The Georgian Society's Publications in a strictly limited edition of 300 numbered copies (this copy unnumbered); scarce second issue [?], with frontis. The portrait of Sterne was etched by Edward Hedouin from a painting by Joshua Reynolds (according to the captioned tissue-guard). Written by his friend John Hall-Stevenson as a completion to Sterne's unfinished second novel, 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr Yorick' (originally 1768 in 2 volumes), & appended to the 1769 posthumous edition (in 4 volumes). Note that the 132pp volume, 'Continuation of Yorick's Sentimental Journey' (1788: Printed for the author at the Literary Press, London) is not the same work. Proprietor of the decayed Skelton Castle, founder of the Demoniack Club & head Demoniack, John Hall-Stevenson (1718-85) was an indefatigable literary provocateur infamous for his deviltry. The present edition includes: Hall's 9pp Preface; 'Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued' in two consecutively-paged volumes (I: 1-48; II: 49-108); & Sterne's suppressed tract of 1759, 'A Political Romance Addressed to [blank], Esq. of York' (109-28); each with separate title-page. Whether the Georgian Society has anything to do with the society of the same name active in Dublin in 1909, remains uncertain. Presumably late (unnumbered) copies of this volume had the plate added; however, considering its scarcity, an outside possibility remains that an owner may have added it (though it does fit perfectly). A nice copy, gilt bright; cloth frayed at crown of spine.

Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Very scarce Basel edition of Sterne's little masterpiece. Includes a 14pp memoir of Sterne, partly by himself and partly by a later editor (the piece is signed 'W & S']. Also includes, in continuous pagination, Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued by Eugenius [John Hall Stevenson]. Total pagination is xiv; 320. In contemporary half leather with gilt titles and decoration to spine, marbled paper to boards. Lengthy inscriptions in German and Latin to end papers and faint residual underlining (partially erased) in pink pencil passim throughout text. A few brown spots to text but on the whole a very clean copy in a slightly edge-rubbed but perfectly sound binding. Fewer than half a dozen copies of this edition are known to exist, hence it is fair to describe it as rare.