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Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, To his most Intimate Friends. With a Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Family. Written by Himself and published by his Daughter, Mrs. Medalle. In Three Volumes. (Dublin Edition.)

This volume is fully bound in leather calf over boards. The front paste-down has 2 labels on the top left corner "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" and underneath "Property of the LS Trust, 1986". Written in pencil on the front free end-page is "1776 3vols in one. £16.00 (1st 1775)". Written in ink above this is "VO 3/3". Written in ink on the title page are 2 previous owners signatures "Wm Clark" and "Robert Spidaply (?)" On the reverse of the title page is an ink stamp "Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" in a circle with "The Kenneth Monkman Collection" inside.

Accession number CCWSH:0315
Publisher de Medalle, Lydia Sterne
Date 1776
Dimensions height: 171 mm, width: 108 mm