Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
[Described by Sterne as a "cock and bull" story it rambles through the life of the hero with the
author contantly suggesting the impossibility of telling the story, or finishing it.
It ran to nine volumes and was left unfinished at his death. He offered the first two volumes
to a York bookseller for £50 but was refused so took them to Dodsley in London]
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman : Vols I & 2 (1759 Dodsley)
Vols 3 & 4 (1761 Dodsley)
Vols 5 & 6 (1762 Dodsley)
Vols 7 & 8 (1765 Dodsley)
Vol 9 (1767 Dodsley)
(1760-7 York & London : Octavo)
- 9 vols
(1797 C Cooke, London)
- 6 vols in 3
(1832 Cochrane)
- 2 vols. George Cruikshank
(1867 London)
- T Stothard
(1926 Harrap)
- 1000. Rowland Wheelwright
(1928 Bodley Head)
- John Austen
(1929-30
Golden Cockerel Press)
- J E Labourer & Eric Gill
(1932 Cochrane, London)
- 2 vols. Cruikshank
(1935 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by T M Cleland . 2 vols
(1949 Macdonald)
- Brian Robb
(1970
Folio Society)
- Martin Rowson
Sermons of Mr Yorick
Vols I & II (1760 London)
Vols III & IV (1766 London)
Vols V, VI & VII (1769 London)
A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy
(1768 Becket & De Hondt)
- 2 vols - by Mr Yorick
(1774 Miller & White, London)
- 4 vols in 1
(1795 London)
- R Newton
(1839 London)
- E & G Nicholls
(1857 Willoughby, London)
- Tony Johannot
(1884 New York)
- 100. M Leloir
(1889 Bliss, Sands, London)
- Thomas Heath Robinson
(1910 Williams & Norgate, London)
- 500. Everard Hopkins
(1926 Macmillan)
- Norah McGuinness
(1927 Peter Davies)
- 2000. Vera Willoughby
(1928
Golden Cockerel Press)
- 500 numbered. J E Labourer
(1929 Dodd Mead, NY)
- Valenti Angelo
(1929 Black Sun Press, Paris)
- 400. Polia Chentoff
(1936 Ltd Eds Club, High Wycombe)
- 1500 signed by Eric Gill & Denis Tegetmeir
(1948 Macdonald)
- Brian Robb
(1948 Paul Elek : Camden Classics)
- Marian
(1949
Folio Society)
- Nigel Mabourne
Letters
Letters from Yorick to Eliza (1775)
(1775 for G Kearsley, London 2nd Ed)
Sterne's Letters to his Friends on Various Occasions (1775 for G Kearsley)
Letters of the Late Laurence Sterne to his Most Intimate Friends (1775 T Becket, London)
- 3 vols
Letters supposed to have been Written by Yorick and Eliza (1779)
(1929 Bell 2nd Ed)
Original Letters Never Before Published (1788 Logographic Press, London)
Letters of Yorick and Eliza (1807)
Seven Letters written by Sterne and his Friends, hitherto Unpublished (1844 London)
Unpublished Letters of Laurence Sterne (Ed by J Murray)
(1855-6 Philobiblon Society)
Letters (1927 Shakespeare Head Press)
- 530
Works
The Sermons of Mr Yorick (1760-6 Dodsley)
- 4 vols
The Works (1774 Thomas Armitage, Dublin)
- 7 vols. 2nd Irish Edition
Collected Works (1779, 1780)
The Works (1780 Strahan, London)
- 10 vols. 1st collected Edition
Offered in 1999 for £680
The Works (1793 Dodsley, London)
- 10 vols
The Works (1795 ptd for the Booksellers)
- 8 vols
Gleanings from the Works (1796 for Wills, Symonds, Champante & Whitrow, London)
The Works (1808 J Johnson, London)
- 4 vols
The Works (Incl Sermons & Letters (1815 Strahan, Wilkie, Lackington)
- 4 vols
The Works (1819 Cadell & Davies)
- 4 vols
The Works : with a Life by Himself (1823 Chiswick Press)
- 4 vols
Collected Works (Ed G Saintsbury)
(1894 Dent)
- 6 vols. George Cruikshank
(1900 Dent 3rd Ed)
- 6 vols. Edited by George Saintsbury
Works (1904 NY)
- 12 vols. 250 numbered sets. edited by P Fitzgerald
Other Works
The Case of Elijah (1747 York)
The Abuses of Conscience (1750)
A Political Romance (The History of a Good Warm Watchcoat)
(1759 London)
The Beauties of Sterne (1782 T Davies, London)
- New Ed
The Beauties of Sterne (1799 Kearsley, London. 13th Ed)
(Illustrator)
Thomas Rowlandson : The Beauties of Stern (1809 London)
Second Journal to Eliza (Transcribed from the copy in the BM)
(1929 G Bell)
- 1000
READING
18thC
John Ferriar : Illustrations of Sterne (1798 London)
19thC
Percy Fitzgerald : The Life of Laurence Sterne (1864 London)
Sir Walter Scott : Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1867)
H D Traill : Sterne (1882 Macmillan)
Percy Fitzgerald : The Life of Laurence Sterne (1896 Downey, London)
- 2 vols
1900-1950
Harvey Waterman Thayer : Laurence Sterne in Germany (1905 Macmillan NY)
Wilbur L Cross : The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne (1909 Macmillan)
(1909 Macmillan NY)
W Sichel : Sterne - A Study (1910 Williams & Norgate)
A DeFroe : Laurence Sterne and His Novels Studied in the Light of Modern Psychology
(1925 Noordhoff, Groningen)
L P Curtis : The Politics of Laurence Sterne (1929 OUP)
L Hartley : This is Lorence - A Narrative of the Rev Laurence Sterne (1943 N Carolina UP)
T Yoseloff : A Fellow of Infinite Jest (1945 Prentice Hall)
E N Dilworth : The Unsentimental Journey of Laurence Sterne (1948 King's Crown Press, US)
After 1951
J Traugott : Tristram Shandy's World - Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric
(1954 California UP)
A G Fredman : Diderot and Sterne (1955 Columbia UP)
W Connely : Laurence Sterne as Yorick (1958 Bodley Head)
A B Howes : Yorick and the Critics (1958 New Haven)
Henri Fluchere : Laurence Sterne - From Tristram to Yorick (1965 OUP)
Lodwick Hartley : Laurence Sterne in the 20thC (1966 N Carolina UP)
J C T Oates : Shandyism and Sentiment 1760-1800 (1968 Cambridge Bibliographical Society)
A H Cash & J M Steadman : Laurence Sterne Centenary Conference (1971 Methuen)
D Thomson : Wild Excursions - The Life & Fictions of Laurence Sterne
(1972 Wiedenfeld & Nicolson)
(Ed)
A B Howes : Sterne - The Critical Heritage (1974 Routledge)
Arthur H Cash : Laurence Sterne - The Early & Middle Years (1975 Methuen)
Arthur H Cash : Laurence Sterne - The Later Years (1986 Methuen)
Ian Campbell Ross : Laurence Sterne - A Life (2001 Oxford UP £25)