The Shandean. Volume 8 November 1996. An annual volume devoted to Laurence Sterne and his Works.

This volume is fully bound in green book cloth/buckram. The front and rear paste-down's and free end-pages are comprised of single sheets of pale grey paper. To the rear of the volume are 5 pages of advertisments, on the reverse of the last advertisment page are the printers details. On page 135 is a colour large pull-out fan. Articles in this volume are: 1) Rorensu Sutahn; Sterne in Japan by Ishii, 2) Dying by Numbers; Tristram Shandy and Serial Fiction (I) by Keymer, 3) Sterne in Norfolk by Clarke, 4) The Adventurous Journey of Lorenzo Sterne in Italy by Santovetti, 5) Sterne and Voltaire in Purgatory by Bosch, 6) Stuffing Sausages as Satura and Foreplay; Apuleius's Lucius and Trim's Brother Tom by Simms and 7) Marold's Voyage Sentimental by Soupel. Followed by Notes, Queries and Reviews.