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The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. (Three Volumes complete). Limited edition.Illustrated by J. E. Laboureur.

The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. (Three Volumes complete). Limited edition.<br />Illustrated by J. E. Laboureur.

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The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. (Three Volumes complete). Limited edition.<br />Illustrated by J. E. Laboureur.

by Sterne, Laurence

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Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. Limited edition of 500 Copies, this being number 301. Hardback. Three volumes. Vol. I: 265pp; Vol. II: 258pp; Vol. III:197pp. Publisher's original red cloth binding. Gilt to spines and top edges gilt. No jackets. Fifteen copper engravings by J. E. Laboureur. Printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the GC Press. Laurence Sterne's marvellously entertaining book in a very nice edition. All three volumes in uniform condition. They each have a bookplate to the front paste down for Hereford City Library Reference Department and acquisition stamps to versos of title pages. Also Dewey reference numbers to foot of spines. As the books were from the Reference Department of the library, they have not suffered the indignities often inflicted on lending stock. Some colour fade to spines (Vol. II being most affected). Some light rubbing and soiling. Corners relatively free of anything other than very minor bumping. All three volumes very clean and bright internally.

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LAURENCE STERNE was born in 1713, the younger son of a landowning Yorkshire family. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1738. Sterne's dramas were mostly personal, including bitter quarrels with his wife and uncle, and some high profile affairs. The publication of the first volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy in 1759 made him famous throughout Europe overnight. He went on to complete the remaining volumes over the next seven years. Sterne died in 1768 of tuberculosis, the condition that had dogged him for many years.

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Title
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. (Three Volumes complete). Limited edition.Illustrated by J. E. Laboureur.
Author
Sterne, Laurence
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Hardcover
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Golden Cockerel Press
Place of Publication
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Date Published
1929
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