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A NOTE ON THE TEXT
First editions of all nine volumes have been used as copy-text:
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 9 vols.
Vols. I and II, [Ann Ward, York] 1760 [i.e., December 1759]
Vols. III and IV, London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761
Vols. V and VI, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1762 [1761]
Vols. VII and VIII, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehon[d]t, 1765
“Errata” for Vols. VII and VIII precedes Vol. VII.
Vol. IX, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1767.
For complete bibliographical details, see Kenneth Monkman’s appendix to the Florida Edition. A British Library copy was used as copy-text and compared with my own copy of the first edition. The second edition contains the Dedication to Pitt (somewhat spoiling a good Shandean joke in chapter viii of the first volume), a third epigraph to volume V, and a few new sentences, among other revisions, but Sterne seems on the whole to have revised lightly. This edition emends conservatively, and tends to leave Sterne’s uncertain spellings, including his bad French, as they are in the text. Sometimes his spellings are clues to sources. Sometimes he purposely distorts the original for comic effect. I have quietly regularized some spellings to make them consistent when he spells the same word in different ways and his source spells it in one of those ways. Often the notes implicitly correct the spelling. I have noted other editors’ substantive emendations, some of which have been adopted, along with some accidentals from later editions. The long s, the use of quotation marks, and Sterne