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The Works of John Hall-Stevenson, Esq. Containing, Crazy Tales, Fables For Grown Gentlemen, Lyric Epistles, Pastoral Cordial, Pastoral Puke, Macarony Fables, Lyric Consolations, Moral Tales and Monkish Epitaphs &c. Corrected and Enlarged. With Several Original Poems, Now First Printed, and Explanatory Note. Volume III.

This volume is fully bound in mottled/speckled boards. The front paste-down has 3 labels; within the centre is a large previous owners bookplate with a coat of arms above the motto "Spiritus Gladius", above "John Hutton Esq" and "Marske". On the top left side "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" with underneath and partially covering the bookplate "Property of the L S Trust, 1986". 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. The spine has 5 raised bands with gilt impressed lines either side. The title piece is gilt capitols on a red background "Hall's Works" with a gilt "3" impressed into the leather underneath. The board rims also have impressed gilt decoration.

Accession number CCWSH:0375c
Category Book
Publisher Nichols, J; Debrett, J; Beckett, T
Date 1795
Dimensions height: 180 mm, width: 120 mm