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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. First Edition. The Chiltern Library Edition.

This volume is fully bound in dark blue book cloth. Pasted on the top left corner of the front paste-down are 2 labels; "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" with underneath "Property of the L S Trust, 1986". Written in ink underneath these is a previous owners signature and address "J. Richardson. Hill Crest Coxwold". Printed onto the reverse of the half-title page is some brief biographical information about Sterne and printed onto the reverse of the title page is publication and printers infomation as well as the black circular stamp "Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall" with "The Kenneth Monkman Collection" inside.

Accession number CCWSH:0417
Category Book
Publisher John Lehmann Ltd; Purnell and Sons Ltd
Date 1948
Dimensions height: 188 mm, width: 127 mm