Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… who turned it down. Sterne proceeded to publish it at his own expense, ‘merely to feel the Pulse of the World’. 4 It was printed by Ann Ward, in York, but the first edition bears no indication of the printer on the title-page. Given the success of the book, orchestrated in part by Sterne himself, Dodsley offered to pay … 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 (5,000 copies). The Sermons were published with a subscription list of more than 600 …
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