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The Works of Laurence Sterne. In Ten Volumes Complete. Containing, 1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. 2. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. 3. Sermons. 4. Letters. With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself.

This volume is fully bound in leather over boards. The front paste-down has 3 labels, within the centre is a previous owners bookplate with "Non Progredi Est Regredi" above a family crest with "Robert Balloch" underneath. On the top left side "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" and underneath and partially covering the bookplate is "Property of the L S Trust, 1986". In pencil on the bookplate is "10 vols £6". Written in pencil on the front free end-page is "10 vols complete contemporary binding (?)", on the reverse, also in pencil is "Sterne B 1713 - D 1768". On the reverse of the title page is a circular stamp in ink with "Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" with "The Kenneth Monkman Collection" inside. After the title page is an Advertisment page.

Accession number CCWSH:0283a
Category Book
Publisher Sherwin; Hogarth; Collyer; unknown
Date 1783
Dimensions height: 185 mm, width: 115 mm