NMLP P-038088 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · [Ann Ward], York (vols I-II); R. and J. Dodsley, London (vols III-IV); T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, London (vols V-IX) · 1760
No book-club edition exists for a 1760-67 imprint. Documented reprint tells: (1) Dodsley's London second edition of Vols I-II (2 April 1760) WITH the Hogarth frontispiece and a full London imprint — the single most common substitution in "first edition" sets; (2) contemporary piracies, which is precisely why Sterne signed B1 of Vols V, VII and IX — an unsigned copy of those volumes should be treated as suspect; (3) 19th-century collected Works and Victorian illustrated editions; (4) 20th-century press and subscription reprints (Limited Editions Club / Heritage Press, Folio Society) with modern paper, a colophon, and a 20th-century imprint. A genuine York Vol. I has no imprint line at all — that absence is the tell.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038088 for "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038088, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).