1929 Lu

Copies examined

Curwen Press: G34

Copies located

British Library:

Title page

π4r

LAURENCE STERNE | SECOND JOURNAL TO ELIZA | Hitherto known as | LETTERS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN | WRITTEN BY YORICK AND ELIZA | But now shown to be a later version of the | JOURNAL TO ELIZA | [swelled rule] | Transcribed from a copy in the British Museum | and presented with an Introduction by | MARGARET R. B. SHAW | Together with a Foreword by | CHARLES WHIBLEY | London | G. BELL & SONS LTD | 1929

Imprint

π4v

Limitation

π2v

(1,000)

Collation

π4 [A]8 B-N8.

Pagination

[13] vi-vii [viii-ix] x-xxxix [xl,1-3] 4-40 [41-3] 44-124 [125-7] 128-57 [158-61] 162-5 [+3].

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8¾" × 5⅝", top edge only trimmed and gilt, white wove, Ganymede; 14pt. Baskerville; casing, green cloth gold-blocked on spine: ‘[typefounder's curves] | SECOND | JOURNAL | TO | ELIZA | [curve]’, and on upper cover: ‘[within frame of typefounders' curves] SECOND | JOURNAL TO | ELIZA’.

Notes

Sterne's 'Journal to Eliza', written to Mrs. Elizabeth Draper, was published posthumously in 1904.

The 'Second journal' was ascribed by some to William Combe (1742-1843), and first published 1929 in this edition.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 11/Jan/2022