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Sterne's Koran
By F. R. A.
An inquiry respecting this work appeared in the *Gent. Mag.*, vol. lxvii. pt. ii. p. 565.; and at p. 755. we are told by a writer under the signature of "Normanus," that in *his* edition of Sterne, printed at Dublin, 1775, 5 vols. 12mo., the Koran was placed at the end, the editor honestly confessing that it was *not* the production of Sterne, but of Mr. Richard Griffith (son of Mrs. Griffith, the *Novellettist*), then a gentleman of large fortune seated at Millecent, co. Kildare, and married to a daughter of the late Ld. C.B. Burgh. I possess a copy of an indifferent edition of Sterne's works…
Topics: Victorian Literature, Literary History, Publishing
Locations: Dublin, Millecent, Kildare, Gainsbrough