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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Complete in Nine Volumes. Volumes 7 & 8 & 9. Vienna Edition.

This volume is bound in thick paper, now faded but likely red with darker veins. There are no 'proper' paste-downs, the cover being sewn directly onto the spine. The reverse of the front cover has 2 labels pasted onto it "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" and underneath is "Property of the L S Trust, 1986". The frontispiece is an illustrated/cut depicting 'Uncle Toby in his Sentry Box with the Widow Wadman Watching' with bottom left "Rooker del" and bottom right "Weinrauch Sc.". This image has off-set into the title page. On the reverse of the half title page is a circular stamp in ink with "Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" with "The Kenneth Monkman Collection" inside.

Accession number CCWSH:0378d
Category Book
Publisher Rooker; Weinrauch
Date 1798
Dimensions height: 105 mm, length: 165 mm