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Letters from Yorick to Eliza and Eliza to Yorick & Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Stern to his Most Intimate Friends with a Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais. To which are prefix'd Memoirs of his Life and Family Written by Himself and Published by his Daughter, Mrs. Medalle (Volumes I and II). A New Edition.

This volume is bound with speckled leather spine and points and brown speckled paper covered boards with crimson edges to the text block. The front paste-down has 2 labels on the top left corner; "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall" and underneath "Property of the LS Trust, 1986". Written in pencil on the front paste-down is "98-C02 fu (?)" and written in ink on the bottom right corner of the front free end-page is "Laur.s"; it is unclear if this is a previous owners signature. Stamped onto the reverse of the title page for Volume 2 is the circular atamp with "Laurence Sterne Trust Shandy Hall" with inside "The Kenneth Monkman Collection".

Accession number CCWSH:0333
Date 1766
Dimensions height: 119 mm, width: 123 mm