The Shandean. Volume 9 November 1997. 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 4 pages of advertisments. On the reverse of the last page are the printers details. Articles in this volume are: 1) Sterne, Elizabeth Draper, and Drapery by Guest, 2) Dying by Numbers; Tristram Shandy and Serial Fiction (2) by Keymer, 3) Dialogues in Tristram Shandy; Openness or Control? by Fourny, 4) Charles Robert Leslie's 'My Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman'; The Nineteenth-Century Icon of Sterne's Work by Day, 5) Sterne in Catalan; Notes on Translation by Mallafre and 6) A Story Painted to the Heart? Tristram Shandy and Sentimentalism Reconsidered by Parnell. Followed by Notes, Queries and Reviews.