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The Works of Laurence Sterne Edited by George Saintsbury. In Six Volumes. Volumes 5=6.

This volume is bound with a leather spine and corners and marbled paper covered boards (Gold vein Overprinted over Spanish moiré on Turkish pattern). The top edge of the text-block has been gilded. Pasted onto the top left corner of the front paste-down is a small label with "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall". Pasted onto the front free end-page is a large bookplate with a printed woodcut image and "Ex Libris W.T. Smellie" and "To Travel Hopefully is a Better Thing than to Arrive".

Accession number CCWSH:0984c
Category Book
Author or maker Sterne, Laurence
Publisher Ballantyne Press; J.M. Dent and Co.
Date 1899
Dimensions height: 167 mm, width: 113 mm