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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (3 volumes)
by Sterne, Laurence
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London (Aldine House, 29 & 30, Bedford St): J M Dent & Co, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Wheeler, E J . 1900. Third edition thus (that is edited and introduced by George Saintsbury and illustrated by E J Wheeler), following the first edition of 1894. This edition of Sterne's works comprises of six volumes, the final three of which contained Tristam Shandy. These three volumes are offered here. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt decoration and lettering. Top edge gilt, all other edges deckled. (Boards worn and rounded at spine ends, a few minor marks). Tissued-guarded frontispieces with further tissue-guarded full page illustrations and page decorations, all by E H Wheeler; title pages printed in red and black. Armorial bookplate on paste down of each volume. Minor toning on endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. All three volumes in their original chapped and spotted dust jackets, with minor loss at spine ends; the DJ on volume three is cracked all along front fold and that on volume on has an area of loss around the leading corner; all three a little sunned on spine. Dust jackets now protected in an archival-quality mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the jacket or the volume in anyway.
Synopsis
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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- 004892
- Title
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (3 volumes)
- Author
- Sterne, Laurence
- Illustrator
- Wheeler, E J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J M Dent & Co
- Place of Publication
- London (Aldine House, 29 & 30, Bedford St)
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Sterne
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Bookplate
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- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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