![]() ![]() Two early ownership names on the front endpaper. Raised cords and with a large gold 2 on the spine. Leather on the hinges is cracked, but cords are tight, boards firmly attached. 4 volumes of 9 (volumes 2, 5, 7 and 8) Volumes 5 & 7 signed by Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Pages are very bright and clean with age toning to the endpapers. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. ![]() Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright, an Australian painter and illustrator who emigrated to England as a child. Written by Laurence Sterne, an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. This work explores the problems of language, is abundant with similes reminiscent of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century, and has been suggested as a precursor to the stream of consciousness narrative technique. It purports to be a biography with a style marked by digression, double entendre, and graphic devices. The story of Tristram Shandy, inspired by Don Quixote, and originally published in nine volumes from 1759 to 1767. ![]() Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and fifteen plates, all of which are in colour. Edition limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 48. An illustrated limited edition of the story of Tristram Shandy, signed by the illustrator. ![]()
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