Research Catalog

Title

Tristram Shandy / by Laurence Stern ; essay by Melvyn New ; photo-collages by John Baldessari.

Author

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.

Publication

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• New, Melvyn.
• Baldessari, John, 1931-2020.
• Arion Press. prt

Description

3 v. (620, 42, [80] p.) : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Subjects

• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Caslon
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Univers
• Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 > Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Caslon.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Univers.

Note

• One of 400 copies; vols. [1] and [2] letterpress printed on a special making of Curtis Ruysdael paper from Caslon type, and v. [3] photolithographically printed by Phelps-Schaefer on Curtis Brightwater cover from Caslon and Univers Bold types; v. [3] signed in pencil by the artist.
• "This is the twenty-sixth publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
• Title from case.
• Laurence Sterne's novel originally published 1760-1767. "The text was set from the critical edition of the novel edited by Melvyn New and Joan New, published by the University of Florida Press"--Colophon.
• Melvyn New's essay is taken from the entry for Laurence Sterne in the Dictionary of literary biography, v. 39: British novelists, 1660-1800.
• John Baldessari's work consists of photo-collages and text from the novel printed on one side of a continous strip folded accordion style and attached at its ends to separate boards.
• Marbled paper mounted on p. 216 by Eileen Canning of Dancing Inks, Olympia, Washington.
• Binding: v. [1], Publisher's half blue-green calf and marbled paper boards. Marbled paper by Eileen Cunning. Vols. [2] and [3]: Publisher's blue-green paper boards. All three vols. bound by Schuberth Bookbindery; issued in blue-green slipcase.

Indexed In (note)

• Phillips & Zwicker. American livre de peintre

Contents

[1] The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / by Laurence Sterne -- [2] Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy / by Melvyn New -- [3] Photo-collages for Tristram Shandy / John Baldessari ; with quotations from the novel by Laurence Sterne.

Call Number

*KP (Arion) 93-75

OCLC

• 28244216
• NYPG93-B12723

Author

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.

Title

Tristram Shandy / by Laurence Stern ; essay by Melvyn New ; photo-collages by John Baldessari.

Imprint

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1988.

Indexed In:

Phillips & Zwicker. American livre de peintre, 3

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Added Author

New, Melvyn. Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy. 1988.

Baldessari, John, 1931-2020. Photo-collages for Tristram Shandy. 1988.

Arion Press. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP (Arion) 93-75