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The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Volume 2.

This volume is quarter bound in leather with marble paper boards (french curl over nonpareil pattern (?) both pieces are clearly cut from the same piece of marbled paper. The front paste-down has 3 labels; "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall", underneath this is "Property of the L S Trust, 1986". Within the centre of the page is a large bookplate "S&B" intertwined and underneath a crown. The title page has a device underneath the title and on the obverse of this page is an ink stamp "Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" in a circle with "The Kenneth Monkman Collection" inside it. The same device is used on the title page in both Volume 1 and Volume 2 (although it is darker in volume 1.)

Accession number CCWSH:0067
Category Book
Date 1760
Dimensions height: 160 mm, width: 106 mm