The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Volume 9

The volume is fully bound in speckled leather covered boards with red mottling to the edges of the text block. On the front paste-down there are 3 labels; within the centre is a previous owners bookplate with the name "John Scott" underneath the armorial device and motto "Tace Aut Face". Pasted onto the top corner 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, to the foot are booksellers marks and written in pencil on the front free end-page are bibliographers notes by KM. 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".