Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… have survived. The pleasures of writing in the satirical vein soon became apparent with the publication of the first two volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman in 1759. The encyclopedic turn of the work owes as much to … Dodsley offered to pay Sterne £250 for the copyright in order to publish a second edition, as well as £380 for the next volumes. The second edition appeared in April 1760, with illustrations by William Hogarth which Sterne had managed to … eighteenth century, it is his book which opened the doors of the fashionable circles. The York edition of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy having sold out, Sterne embarked on a new London edition, printed by Robert and James Dodsley …
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