The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Volume 3.
The volume is fully bound on speckled leather covered boards with red mottling to the edges of the text block. Pasted onto the centre of the front paste-down is a previous owners bookplate with the name "Robt. Banks Hodgkinson Esqr. New Burlington Street" underneath the armorial device. Pasted onto the top left corner and partly obscuring the bookplate are 2 small white labels "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" with underneath "Property of the L S Trust, 1986". Written in pencil adjacent to these is "KM 2" & "am persuaded on p 141". Also written in pencil and located on the top right corner of the title page is "TSL 135". Stamped onto the reverse of the title page is the circular stamp with "The Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" and inside "The Kenneth Monkman Collection".