Fitzgerald tells us in his biography of Sterne, that it was the author's first thought to have the volume a stately quarto with handsome margins, costing a half-guinea, but that he finally decided to use the _Shandy_ size, which had become a favorite with the public. The book, which is without ornament, except for an engraving on copper of a coat of arms (Sterne's book-plate), in the second volume, is a good specimen of the best typography of the period. Large paper copies also were issued. The first volume begins with a long list of "Subscribers," the names starred being down for "Imperial Paper." Thomas Becket lived to be ninety-three years old, long enough, as Charles Knight remarks, to see many revolutions in literary taste; long enough, in fact, to see Sterne, his most successful author, go out of fashion. He was an assistant to Andrew Millar, before he became De Hondt's partner. It was he who published the famous anonymous book, _The Pursuits of Literature_ by Mathias, which had the distinction of running into fourteen editions. Duodecimo. COLLATION: _Two volumes._ Volume I, _xx, 203 pp._ Volume II, 2 _ll., 208 pp._ THE FEDERALIST 55. The | Federalist: | A Collection | Of | Essays, | Written In Favour Of The | New Constitution, | As Agreed Upon By The Federal Convention, | September 17, 1787. | In Two Volumes | Vol. I. | New-York: | Printed And Sold By J. And A. M'Lean, | No. 41, Hanover-Square. | M,DCC,LXXXVIII.