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The Works of Laurence Sterne; In Four Volumes; Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; Sermons; Letters, &c. With A Life of the Author, Written by Himself.

This volume is fully bound in speckled leather over boards with mottled edges to the text block and gold impressed decoration to the board rims. The front paste-down has a large previous owners bookplate in the centre with "Henry Dawkins Esq" underneath a Heraldic device. There are marks in ink to the head of the front paste-down which could be the remains of a previous owners signature (?) Printed for : Johnson, J & Robinson, G. & Robinson, J. & Becket, T. & Baldwin, R. & Hookham and Company & Strahan, A. & Lowndes, W. & Wilkie, G. & Vernor and Hood & Ogilvy and Son & Walker, J. & Stockdale. J. & Lackington, Allen and Company & Longman and Rees & Cadell and Davies & Nunn, J. & Lea, R. & Scatcherd, J. & Richardson, W.J. and Richardson, J. & Blacks and Parry & Asperne, J.

Accession number CCWSH:0473b
Category Book
Publisher Luke Hansard and Sons
Date 1808
Dimensions height: 225 mm, width: 138 mm