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The Works of Laurence Sterne. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself. A New & Complete Edition Carefully Compared with the Best Texts, And A Memoir by David Herbert.

This volume is fully bound in green book-cloth covered boards with end-pages comprised of single sheets of brown paper and a gilt top edge to the text-block. Pasted onto the top corner of the front paste-down are 2 white labels with "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" with underneath "Property of the L S Trust, 1986". A very faded signature, written in pencil is on the front free end-page with a book-sellers stamp to the top of the page. Stamped on the bottom of the title page is a circular stamp with "Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" with insid "The Kenneth Monkman Collection".

Accession number CCWSH:0756
Category Book
Author or maker Sterne, Laurence
Publisher Murray and Gibb; William P. Nimmo; Hogarth; W.H. Smith and Son
Date 1872
Dimensions height: 233 mm, width: 163 mm