Book Description

Copac lists twelve UK libraries holding copies.
Dealer Notes
Condition very good, gilt very bright with occasional small loss to spine extremes, some scuffing to spine and edges, some ru bring to boards, some offsetting and foxing, pages generally clean and quite crisp, some pencil script to prelims., vol 1 pp286-7 pages not completely cut, vol 2 p34 p39 mark, p75 pp256-7 p282 blank pages are cross-referenced and are intentional, small tear to margin loss of paper, vol 3 pp356-7 pp362-5 under-lining, vol 4 p70 p149 p369 a mark to rh of page, p359 an example of a tick to letter number. All photos using natural light only. Engravings: vol 1 frontispiece Sterne, vi Sterne, 1 title page Life and Opinions book 1, pp37-38 blackness, Life book 2 p70, p96 Lillibullero, 183 Life book 3, pp268-9 marbled plate, p289 Life book 4, p359 Tristram Shandy ch. 48, p406 book 5, p233 Tristram Shandy ch.8, Engravings vol 2: frontispiece Tristram Shandy ch.10, Life p1 book 6, p78 lines, Life book 7 p80, Life book 8 p127, Life book 9 pp26, p233 line, Sentimental Journey book1 p288, p369 Sentimental Journey book 2, p436 engraving Sentimental Journey, Engravings vol 3: frontispiece, p42 sermon iv, p226, p257 sermon xx, sermon xxix, p406, Engravings vol 4: p185 Letters, p211 engraving letter xxix. No engravings called for.
Author Laurence Sterne
Date 1808
Binding Bayntun binding, leather with ornate gilding to boards and spine compartments, title on red morocco, volume on brown morocco, all joints firm, all edges gilt,
Publisher J Johnson et al.
Condition Very good

Price: £1300.00

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