The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Signed Volume 5. 1st Edition.

The volume is fully bound with speckled calf covered boards with red mottled edges to the text block. Pasted onto the top left corner of both the front paste-down and front free end-page are 2 labels "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" with underneath "Property of the Laurence Sterne Trust, 1986"; both of these pages have the remains of pencil writing which has been erased in the past. Stamped onto the reverse of the title page is the circular stamp with "The Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" and inside "The Kenneth Monkman Collection". Written, in pencil, on the rear free end-page is "Shandy 5.v.65"