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The Sermons of Mr Yorick, Volume III, First edition, T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 1766

Description

Volume 3 of 4. It is fully bound in leather with a gilt embossed spine. This book is very like volume 1 CCWSH0062 and volume 2 CCWSH0063.

History

This book was purchased from the Monkman Estate in 1986. This book was previously owned by Nathaniel Cholmley who was a subscriber but is not listed as so inside this volume.

This book contains the contents page of both Volume 3 and Volume 4. The catchword is on the bottom right of each page. The catchword was used as a guide to help often illiterate printers print the pages in the correct order and was used in a majority of 18th century books.

Accession number

CCWSH0064

Date

1766

Author

Laurence Sterne

Publisher

Becket, T & De Hondt, P.A

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