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The Marbled Page: The Works of Laurence Sterne (1783)

Description

This, the second of a ten-volume set, contains the second part of Tristram Shandy.

The marbled page is double-sided. Fold marks are visible where the margins have been protected during the marbling process. Some bleeding has occurred on p.112.

History

With the 1840 bookplate of ‘Lady Rodd’ covering a motto ‘? Crux Anchora’ above the name ‘JJ (TT?) Rennell Esqr’.

Accession number

CCWSH:0284b

Date

1783

Author

Laurence Sterne

Publisher

London: Printed for Rivington, J & Sons & Dodsley, J & Kearsley, G & Johnson, J & Robinson, J & Cadell, T & Murray, J & Becket, T & Baldwin, R & Wilkie, T & G & Ogilvie, D

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