INVENTORY #154530
The Works of Laurence Sterne, Complete in Eight Volumes
STERNE, Laurence
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Sterne is best known for "Tristram Shandy," which some critics call the first postmodern novel. But this may be taking the work too seriously, since this meandering life story consists mainly of amusing tangents, its main theme nearly forgotten. Titles: "I. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. II. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. III. Sermons. IV. Letters. V. The Fragment. VI. The Koran. VII. The History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat."
Publication Info
- Publisher: Printed for W. Sharpe, et al
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1818
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
8 vols. bound in 4: xxii, [6], 351; 330; 259; 280 p. 19 cm. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Gilt trim on spines. Page edges red sprinkled. Moderate wear to extremities and rubbing to paper. Wrapped in protective mylar (removed for photo) Vol. I contains the double-sided "black" page after "Alas poor Yorick!" but the page which was to contain the marbled paper was never covered, preserving Sterne's in-depth instruction to the binder printed on both sides of the leaf. This volume's first pages, up to p. vi, are loosening at bottom. Vol. 2 contains the blank page provided by Sterne so that the reader may draw the Widow Wadman.