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Voyage sentimental, suivi des lettres d'Yorick à Eliza

Illustrated by: Nicolas-André Monsiau (French, 1754/55–1837)
Engraved by: Jean Dambrun (French, 1741–about 1808)
Engraved by: Simon Charles Miger (French, 1736–1820)
Engraved by: Charles Emmanuel Jean Baptiste Patas (French, 1744–1802)
Engraved by: Jean Louis Charles Pauquet (French, 1759–about 1824)
Author: Laurence Sterne (English, 1713–1768)
Publisher: Dufour (Firm) (18th century)
Printer: Pierre-Nicolas Firmin Didot (French, active from 1795)
1799
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with six etching and engravings (plus nine extra-illustrated proofs)
Dimensions Overall: 36.8 x 29.5 x 5 cm (14 1/2 x 11 5/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.2395
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris and Amsterdam: Didot jeune, for J. E. Gabriel Dufour, l'an VII [1799]

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 957-58
Description(Paris and Amsterdam: Didot jeune, for J. E. Gabriel Dufour, l'an VII [1799]) Large quarto, two vols. in one; [v. 1] 107 leaves, plus 9 plates (not all bound in); [v. 2] 116 ll., plus 6 plates (not all bound in); modern gilt-stamped half red morocco, marbled paper boards.

Literary illustrations. The larger-format edition of two published in 1799 with illustrations after Monsiau and English and French text on facing pages. This is the primary edition; the plates in the other (MFA copy: 37.1681a-c) are reduced copies of these. This copy, formerly in the Robert Hoe collection, contains an extra eight proof impressions of the plates before captions and in several cases in pure etched states. In addition, there is a reversed copy of one plate (v. 2, betw. pp. 144-45).
ProvenanceRobert Hoe, New York (1839-1909); unidentified collector's [binder's?] stamp on preliminary leaf with initials AR; acquired in New York in 1918 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.