Laurence Sterne; The Making of a Humorist. First Edition.

This volume is bound in pale brown-pink book cloth with a grey paper cover which has itself been covered in plastic. The front 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". Printed on the reverse of the title page are the publishers and printers details and also the circular stamp "Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall" with "Kenneth Monkman Collection" inside. The frontispiece is entitled "Laurence Sterne at the age of 47 from the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds"There is pencil marginalia throughout the text block.