GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Works.—The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Vols. I. and II., 1759; III. and IV., 1761; V. and VI., 1762; VII. and VIII., 1765; IX., 1767; first collected edition, 1767; numerous later editions, chiefly of recent date. Sermons of Mr. Yorick, Vols. I. and II., 1760; III. and IV., 1766; V., VI., and VII., 1769. A Sentimental Journey, 1768; many later editions; Letters from Yorick to Eliza, 1775; Sterne’s Letters to his Friends on Various Occasions, 1775; Letters of Laurence Sterne to his most intimate friends, 1775; Original Letters never before published, 1788; Letters of Yorick and Eliza, 1807; Seven Letters written by Sterne and his Friends, hitherto unpublished, 1844; Unpublished Letters of Laurence Sterne, edited by J. Murray, 1856.
Collected editions of the works of Laurence Sterne appeared in 1779, 1780; edited by G. Saintsbury, 1894; by Wilbur L. Cross, 1906.
Life.—An account of the life and writings of the author is prefixed to the edition of his Works, 1779; a life of the author written by himself in edition of works, 1780; by Sir W. Scott in edition of Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, 1867; by H. D. Traill, 1878; by P. H. Fitzgerald, 1896; Laurence Sterne in Germany, by H. W. Thayer, 1905; Life and Times, by Wilbur L. Cross, 1909; A Study, by Walter S. Sichel, 1910; Life and Letters, by Lewis Melville, 1911.
[1.] It is perhaps barely necessary to observe that the parallel does not extend to a further parallel between republication and tale-bearing. Once published, the thing is public.
⁂ [The text] which has been here adopted is that of the ten-volume edition, first printed in 1781, and reprinted several times before the end of the century, which is as near as anything to the “standard” Sterne. It seems, however, to have had no competent editing; and the renumbering of the chapters to suit the four volumes, in which Tristram was printed, completely upsets the original and important division into nine volumes, or books, which has here, as in some other editions, been restored. Another piece of thoughtlessness was that of sticking the Dedication, which originally came between the eighth and ninth volumes, or books, at the beginning of the fourth volume as reprinted, thereby making nonsense or puzzle of Sterne’s joke about à priori. It should be observed that the Dedication to Pitt, which here leads off, was not prefixed till the second edition of the original, and that sometimes in the last-century editions it appears displaced at a later spot. No attempt has been made to correct any oddities of spelling that are not clearly mere misprints.
[CONTENTS]
| PAGE | |
| Book I. | [3] |
| Book II. | [59] |
| Book III. | [113] |
| Book IV. | [176] |
| Book V. | [251] |
| Book VI. | [300] |
| Book VII. | [349] |
| Book VIII. | [395] |
| Book IX. | [441] |