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First Dutch edition of a famous literary work
STERNE, Laurence.Het Leven en de Gevoelens van Tristam Shandy. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door Bernardus Brunius.   Amsterdam, A.E. Munnikhuisen, 1776-1779. 11 parts in 5 vols. Sm.8vo. Contemp. half calf, spines gilt, with red title-labels. With 5 engraved titles, separate title to each part, engraved portrait of the author by C.F. Fritschius, full-page black plate, hand-marbled plate in colours on both sides of one leaf, engraved coat-of-arms and some figures in text, and including several pages intentionally left blank. Together ca. 1700 pp. Rare first Dutch edition, first issue, of this popular work by one of the most original English writers, Laurence Sterne (1713-1768). Starting only to write at a mature age - he was 47 when the first two parts of his first work 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy' appeared - Sterne continued to publish part after part until the ninth and last part appeared in 1767. Full of Rabelaisian humour, Tristram Shandy soon became immensely popular. The present Dutch edition faithfully followed all the typographical eccentricities of the English original. The fifth volume contains the Dutch translation of Yorick's sentimental voyage of 1778, also in first edition. Sterne's originality prevented other writers of his century from imitating him, his influence appearing only in twentieth-century literature, especially in James Joyce's works. Fine set.- (Some bindings sl. damaged).
Cf. Waller 1613 (ed. 1778-79); De Vries 244 (ed. 1779); Scheepers II, 584 (idem); Auction catalogue Beijers 1959 (Coll. Versnel), 559 (idem).
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