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søndag den 6. marts 2016

46 is 44


Errata in Tristram Shandys levned og meninger 1st. danish ed. (Borgen, 1976). Copy at Vanløse Bibliotek.

lørdag den 5. marts 2016

45 is 47


Errata in Tristram Shandys levned og meninger 1st. danish ed. (Borgen, 1976). Copy at Vanløse Bibliotek. 

fredag den 4. marts 2016

44 is 46


Readers errata in Tristram Shandys levned og meninger 1st. danish ed. (Borgen, 1976). Copy at Vanløse Bibliotek. The quite extensive errata sheet* in the 1st. danish edition informs that page 44 should be page 46. 

*)http://sterneetcetera.blogspot.dk/2015/09/errata-sheet.html

søndag den 20. september 2015

Errata sheet


The quite comprehensive errata sheet in the 1st. danish complete ed. of Tristram Shandys levned og meninger (Borgen, 1976) are, despite the publishers assumed cursing on the printer, a beautiful feature in the edition. Very shandean. The Borgen, 1976 ed. was printed by The Whitefriars Press in London — which might explain the extensive erratum. Mint copy from 2nd hand shop in Århus. 

søndag den 23. august 2015

The Sentimental Journey


This 1897 edition of A Sentimental Journey, purchased from a Yorkian Antiquarian, announces on the publishers binding, that this is The Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne. Though, inside the book the title page states A Sentimental Journey. — "Pox take the fellow!": http://sterneetcetera.blogspot.dk/2015/07/tristam-tristram.html

fredag den 21. august 2015

Sternes stones 2


In 1893 a second stone was erected on Sternes assumed grave at St George’s Field Burial Ground, London. The stone corrects some factual errors on the first stone (the date of death) This photo shoving the first and the second stone at St George’s Field Burial Ground is found in Shelly, Henry C.: Untrodden English Ways. Boston, 1908. Shelly writes: "Although the grave of Laurence Sterne is within a stone's throw of one of the most crowded thoroughfares of London, there are few save Americans who turn aside from the stream of life in Bayswater Road to gaze upon his resting-place in the St. George's burial-ground. He had boasted in "Tristram Shandy" that his preference would be to die in an inn, untroubled by the presence and services of his friends; yet when, in his London lodgings, he began to realize that death might be near, he pined for his daughter Lydia to nurse him. Only a hired nurse and a footman stood by Sterne's deathbed. The latter had been sent to inquire after the health of the famous author, and, being told by the landlady of the house to go upstairs and see for himself, he reached the death-chamber just as Sterne was passing away. Putting up his hand as though to ward off a blow, he ejaculated, "Now it is come," and so died. The story goes that even as he was dying, the nurse was busy possessing herself of the gold sleeve-links from his wrists.
Despite the fame he had won, only two mourners followed Sterne to his grave. But other eyes, it seems, watched the burial; for it is affirmed that two days later the body was taken from the grave and sold to a professor of anatomy for dissection. Only an accident revealed the identity of the "subject." Happening to have some friends visiting him at the time, the professor invited them to witness a demonstration, and on their following him to his surgery one of them was horrified to recognize in the partially dissected corpse the features of his friend Laurence Sterne. Such is the story, and most authorities agree in thinking it likely to be true. Perhaps it was not unknown to the two masons who erected the first stone over the grave, for their inscription began with the significant words, "Near to this place lies the body," etc. How near, or how far away, the actual remains of Sterne at length found a resting-place will probably never be known."

onsdag den 5. august 2015

Errata #2


Readers errata in Tristram Shandys levned og meninger 1st. danish ed. (Borgen, 1976). Copy sold from Århus Kommunes Biblioteker.

torsdag den 30. juli 2015

Tristam Tristram


Even that it has been standing on the shelf, this 3rd. danish ed. (Rosinante & Co., 2011) since its publishing date, it was not before here the other day, when G said: "Say, I thought it was called Tristram Shandy not Tristam Shandy" that this misspelling was realized.
"Pox take the fellow! […] —I wish all the devils in hell had him for a blockhead!"* Might the publisher have said, when the piles of misprinted books arrived from the printer. —Or maybe no one have noticed before G did.
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* "Small curses, Dr. Slop, upon great occasions, quoth my father (condoling with him first upon the accident), are but so much waste of our strength and soul’s health to no manner of purpose". (TS: Book III, chap. X ) Se the great curse here: http://sterneetcetera.blogspot.dk/2015/07/small-curses-upon-great-occasions.html

Errata #1


A precedent readers errata in Tristram Shandys levned og meninger 1st. danish ed. (Borgen, 1976). Copy sold from Holbæk Library.