The text is from the 1912 Everyman edition of Tristram Shandy.It reproduces the appearance of that edition, which may not be identicalin design to editions printed in Sterne’s lifetime. Where this editionhas an illustration of a tombstone, some editions have two consecutiveblack pages, placed immediately after “Alas, poor Yorick!” For thee-text, some line breaks were added to the Latin Excommunicatioto accommodate the alternative endings printed between lines.

In the printed book, lines are shorter than in most browsers:

I wish either my father or my mother,or indeed both of them,as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had mindedwhat they were about when they begot me; had they dulyconsider’d how much depended upon what they were thendoing;——

The “Excommunication” and “Slawkenbergius” sections were printed withLatin and English on facing pages. They are shown here in parallelcolumns. Text shown in bold sans-seriftype was printed in blackletter (“Gothic”). Footnotes have beenrenumbered continuously within each Book, and are grouped at the end ofthe Book. The printed text does not distinguish between the author’soriginal footnotes and modern editorial notes.

The editor’s Introduction says:

The same principle was used in the e-text. Unless otherwise noted,spelling, punctuation and capitalization are as in the original.Changes—and a few unchanged words—are marked withmouse-hover popups.Similarly, all Greek words and phrases have mouse-hovertransliterations: λόγος.All brackets are in the original.

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Tristram Shandy
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