The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Volume 3. The First Edition.
- Description
- This volume is fully bound in leather with red mottling to the edges of the text block. On the front paste-down there are 2 labels; top left is "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" with underneath "Property of the Laurence Sterne Trust, 1986". Underneath and written in pencil "Var. 'Dr. Sop' on p (5) c.6". On the reverse of the title page is a circular stamp with "Laurence sterne Trust Shandy Hall" with "The Kenneth Monkman Collection" inside. The spine has 5 raised bands, the title piece is in the second panel down in gilt capitols on an ox-blood background "Tristram Shandy" and the volume number is in the fourth panel down in gilt on a green background "3" both are surrounded by gilt borders. The board faces are decorated by a border of 3 impressed lines.
- Accession number
- CCWSH:0175
- Category
- Book
- Author/maker
- Sterne, Laurence
- Publisher
- Dodsley, R.
- Date
- 1761
- Dimensions
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- Width:
- 100 mm
- Height:
- 155 mm
