Elegant Extracts; or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose Selected for the Improvements of Scholars at Classical and other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life.

This volume is bound in green buckram, this is a replacement cover and spine. The paste-down has 2 labels; On the top left side "From the Library of Kenneth
Monkman at Shandy Hall" with underneath "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. On the title page is an illustrated cut depicting a bee-hive and roses with bottom left "Stothard del" and bottom right "Heath sculp".